¬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
. The 70,000 Inhab. who dwelt in former times at Nuremberg are now greatly diminished. That which was once the greatest and most wealthy of all the free Imperial cities, the residence of emperors, the seat of diets, the focus of the trade of Asia and Europe, the most important manufacturing town in j the forgery Germany, the home of German free dom and art, the cradle of the fine arts, of poetry (in its uncouth infancy, it is true), and of almost numberless useful inventions—which was alternately
as 1 (.)••/. for 12 dozen : they are inferior to the English, but often bear the name of English makers, and are sometimes sent over to England and" reimported, in order to confirm Nuremberg is even ncE a mam depot for goods passing fro*® the South to the North of Europe, an» vice versa. Houses and property with' in the town have doubled in value within 30 or 40 years. In spite of the changes it has under gone of fortune and condition, as 9 city it remains almost unaltered, re taining, probably more than any
other in Europe, the aspect of times lovF gone by. It is surrounded by feudd walls and turrets (of which, in form®, days, it boasted to possess 365), the® and strengthened in more recent when the influence of gunpowder beZ" “ Nuremberg's band Goes through every land,"— were reduced to dribble in lead pencils, pill-boxes, and children’s toys. It has, however, of late years expe rienced a considerable revival of pros perity, the population having increased 45.381 in 1843, to 50,000 in 18 55. The
