¬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
93 . INHABITANTS AND SCENERY. 175 w. ' one-fourth of the surface of the Austrian dominions is occupied by j and their wide-spreading ramifications, commencing on the . at the frontier of Switzerland with the Ehectian range, and extending through the Noric, Salzburg, Carnic, Styrian, and Julian chains, E. into Hungary and. Slavonia, and S. into Dalmatia and the Lit t ovale. Sir Humphry Davy declared he knew no country to be compared in beauty of scenery with these Ian Highlands. “The variety
of the scenery, the verdure of the mea dows and trees, the depths of the valleys and the altitudes of the mountains, the clearness and grandeur of the rivers and lakes, give it, I think, a decided superiority over Switzerland.” It is hardly possible to speak without enthusiasm enchanting scenery of Salzburg and its neighbourhood; of the lake of gssee, the Pass of Lueg, the secluded baths of 6astern, and the glaciers pyramidal peak of the Gross-Glockner. The vale of the Danube, from the point where
it enters Austria, below Passau, to Vienna, is little if at all inferior to the finest parts of the Rhine. A little to the E. of Salzburg, between it and Vienna, is the SetIzktanmet'gut , one of the most enchanting districts of lake and mountain in Europe, whose very name is scarcely known to the English, and yet it is not surpassed by anything in Switzerland. " A Fortnight’s Tour through Salzburg aki> the Salzkaaihergut. Days. Starting from 1 Salzburg by St. Wolfgang to IseW. 2 Ischl by Gmunden and
. 9 To Gast ein, passing magnificent Pass of the Klamm. 10 Visit Nassfeldt. 11 Back to Hallein. 12 Visit Salt-mines, Berchtesgaden. 13 Königs-See. Ober-See hack to Salzburg. U.U. Travellers should leave their carriages at Salzburg, as most of the »ids are only char-roads. A Week’s Tour, through the Salzkammergut, starting from Isciil. * Guide required. * Sleeping-places. t-Aussee J " 4 hrs - Aussee, 1 hr. r-Traun, 2| hrs. *Hallstadt, 1 f hr. Hinter-See,} “ 6-i hrs* _ Vorder-See *Gosau, Zwiselberg, Abtenau
, 1 3 hrs. If ‘-'J ?. I 3-1 hrs. • 2.Z hrs. *G oiling, 3 hri. Königsberg, ) .31 hrs Königs-See, 2 hrs Berchtesgaden, f hr. [vid Durrenberg.] Hallein Salt-mine, 2 hrs. Hallein, | hr. •Salzburg, | St. GilzenJ Diligence in 10 hrs. •Ischel,
