¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
ROUTE 212 . —BREGENZ TO INNSBRUCK. Sect. .2U4? from Gaul, in a fleet constructed on its shores, probably the first that ever navi gated its waters. The Gebhanlsbery, the hill behind the town, surmounted by a church, con taining an image of Grace (Gnadenbild, § 66), commands the most beautiful view of any spot on the shores of the Lake of Constance: it embraces the snow-capped peaks of the Arlberg on the E. ; the glaciers of Appenzell, and the peak of the Sends, on the 8.; and the whole expanse
of the lake to Con stance. There is a delightful public walk, with seats, along the shore of the lake in the direction of Lind an. A family named Aberer, in Bregenz, possesses some of the earliest works of Angelica Kauffmann, who was born near this, at a village called Schwarz- ach, or. Sehwarzberg, not far from Dombirn, through which our road Steamboats navigate the Lake of Constance, 4 times a week, between Bregenz and Lindau, Friedrichshafen, Rorschach, and Constance. Fare to Constance, 1st class
, 2§ fl. Miinz ; time required, 5 hrs, Eilwagen daily to Chur, 11 Germ, m., in 11 hrs. In going by land from Bregenz to Lindau, the Austrian custom-house is reached at the Bregenzerkiause, where there was once a fort, which commanded the pass out of Swabia into Tyrol. The road to Feldkirch is on a level, and passes through orchards nearly the whole way. Dombirn, though only a village of widely-scat tered houses, has 6600 Inhab., —more than either of the three towns of the Vorarlberg. The women find employ
