Both Italy And Germany Present The Greatest Convenience For Travellers, As The Landkutsche Or Vetture Are Continually Passing From Town To Town.

There is however this difference between them, that the Italian vetturini will abate their price, if their carriage is full excepting one place, and that they must start, whereas the German Landkutscher never abate their price.

I paid for my journey from Vienna to Prague thirty-five florins Wiener Waehrung, and we made the journey in five days. Our first day's journey brought us to Hoellabrunn, having stoppd to dinner at Stockeran. The road is excellent and the several towns and villages we past thro' clean and well built. The landscape was either a plain, or gently undulating and extremely well cultivated.

Bohemia resembles Moravia, being an exceedingly rich corn country, generally open; not many trees about the country near the road side, except at the Chateau and farm houses. The language is a dialect of the Sclavonic, mixed with some German; but at the inns there is always one or two servants who speak German. In Bohemia a traveller not speaking German, and who has no interpreter with him, would find himself greatly embarrassed. The Bohemians call themselves in their own language Cherschky, and the Hungarians call themselves Magyar.

[117] Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, canto XV, ottave 31, 32:

Un uom della Liguria avra ardimento All' incognito corao esporsi in prima... Tu spiegherai, Colombo, a un nuovo polo Lontane si le fortunate antenne... - ED.

[118] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, XL, 31, 1.

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