Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855
subscribe to tbe accuracy of tbis statement, though I willingly admit tbat Salzburg may justly claim a high place among sudi localities, and even tliat in one point —I menu, in its noble castle-hill and castle,—it may boast of one striking feature ubidì no otber town, in Gennany can match. But Prag, Buda, Linz, Passau, and two or three towns more, may iairly, I tbink, come iute competition with thè city on tbe Salzach. Of all tbe places mentioned, Passau (wbich, by tbe way, greatly resembles
Salzburg in tbe coniiguration of its site) is, in my judgment, best entitled to tbe palm of beauty, and must talee precedence of Salzburg in tbis respect. castle-liill and castle all included. Äs compared witb Passau, and some of tlie otber towns mentioned, tbe Salzburg landscape appears to me to bave severa! marked defects. Tbe fbllowing may be mentioned : first, the perfect flato ess and coarseness, at least, if not tbe aetual ugliness of tbe plains which He so closely around tbe town ; second, tbe
great distane© of tbe mountains, on account of tbe extent of tbe plain, not allowing tbem to constitute a portiou of tbe immediate landscape, of which tbe city is tbe centre j third, tbe inferior character of its river. Like most mountain rivers in tbe summer season when not eonfined by hold and rocky banks, tbe Salzach in tbe immediate vicinity of Salzburg, exbibits a wide gravelly watercourse very imperfectly filled by tbe stream tbat traverses it. Such a cireumstance alvays detraets greatly from
