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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...from hence through a country of mountains and lakes, to the Monastery of Chremsminster, in the route toLintz--on the high road to Vienna. I have obtained a letter to the Vice-President of Mblk monastery, from a gentleman here, who has a son under his care; so that, ere I reach the capital of Austria, I shall have seen a pretty This town once famous for other similar establishments. In Hartmann Schedcl's time, Salzburg--which was then considered as the Capital Op Bavaria-- was surrounded by great walls, and was adorned by many beautiful buildings of temples and monasteries. A view of Salzburg, which was formerly called Julavia, is subjoined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, fol. Cliii. edit. 1493. Consult also the Chronicon Gotrvicense, 1738, folio, pt. ii. p. 760--for some particulars respecting the town taking its name from the river Juvavut or Igonta. Salzburg was an Archbishopric founded by Charlemagne see the Script. Rer. German, edited by Nidanut et Strvrims, 1799, folio, vol. i. p. 525. good sprinkling of Benedictins--as each of these monasteries is of the order of St. Benedict. The evening of the second day of our visit here, enabled me, in company with my graphic fellow-traveller, to observe, not only the accuracy and beautiful effect of his drawing of the Citadel, and the immediately adjacent country, but to ascertain something of the general character of the scenery contiguous to the town. This scenery is indeed grand and interesting. The summit of the lowest hill in the neighbourhood is said to be 4000 feet above the level of the sea. I own I have strong doubts about this. It is with the heights of mountains, as with the numbers of books in a great library, --we are apt to over-rate each. However, those mountains, which seem to be covered...

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