Acacia-lined avenue called the Tannus Gasse, and crowded like a Broadway. Returning, followed the fashion which are built of stone handsomely,

here, and took a bath; and are in every hotel. Went to the English church here; quite crowded; dined at the Kursaal; about 200 present; the music was fine, and a good dinner. It was an exceedingly warm day, and I contented myself to sit in the shade for hours, watching the happy multitude promenading about, and listening to the splendid band. Towards evening took carriage, and drove up to La Platte, the Duke's hunting seat, eighteen hundred feet above the Rhine, upon the summit of the mountain opposite; a neat and beautiful house, with a view of about forty miles in circuit. The sun had just set when I arrived, but its dying glories of pearl and ruby tints were over Mayence, Wiesbaden, and Coblentz, and the winding river. There is a suite of apartments here entirely, and beautifully furnished with furniture made of horns of the stags of the Duke's herd of one thousand in the woods around it. Returned about 10, P.M., and retired.

2ND.-Took the 8 A.M. rails to Frankfort; arrived at 10, P.M., at Hotel de Russie. Spent a charming hour at the Musee; where are Lessings Huss, and Ezzelin, the bas reliefs, Steinle's distemper paintings, some Flemish pictures, and superb ceilings. Saw the Ariadne and the Goethe. It became so excessively warm as to render it impossible to move out. At 6, P. M., took the Taunus grand Ducal

Baden rails to Heidelberg, arriving at 9, P.M.; fare 2 fl. 33. It goes through the land of Romance: on the left run the mountains, every peak crowned with a castle, now but ivy-clad ruins; and on your right spreads an immense plain in the richest culture. It is harvest time; and the women are busy reaping and loading the wains. The harvest is full. The fruit trees are so heavy as to require to be propped, and nothing can look finer than the grasses: there are no fences, and no field division. Drove to Hotel de Hollande retired early at Frankfort met G. S. H. from Boston.

3D.-Arrived at Heidelberg in the evening, and this morning, taking an early breakfast, with an appetite sharpened by the keen mountain air, walked up the hill to the Castle, arriving there about 9, A. M., and staid till 2; dining at the Restauration, in the Schloss Garten. One good picture will describe this superb ruin better than language. The best view is from the corner of the garden, on the Neckar side, where I sat for an hour or more, looking at the octagon Tower, and the front terrace, with the lofty mountains behind, and the curious town at its foot; the Gesprengte Thurm, and the beautiful river, now very shallow; (in eighteen hundred and forty-five it was thirty feet higher), and the opposite mountains. Coming down, passed the plain buildings of the University. Some students were loitering about, but the term was over: took the train at 4 30, P. M., to Baden-Baden arriving about 8, P. M., at

Badnischer Hof, passed through delightful scenery, like that of yesterday to Oos the Junction, and then to the deep valley of Baden-Baden; went out to the Conversation Haus; a most superb building. Its grand colonnade was crowded with the gay of all nations. Its saloon richly frescoed and with magnificent chandeliers;

about two hundred feet long here thousands in full dress were walking; the most splendid galaxy I have ever seen. Of course at one end were the gambling tables, and there sat superb and handsome ladies, with the deepest anxiety on their faces. One can never forget this scene; and the view of that rich salon a jouer from without was superb. Attached to this building are cafes, restaurants &c., like Wiesbaden, but of course far grander. On the right, the theatre, near the Trinkhalle, built in similar style, and the Ursprung. Returned to my lodgings about eleven P. M.

4TH.-Took the 7 15 train to Strasbourg; arriving about ten P. M., and at Kehl about nine. Breakfasted and took the 11 30 train to Basle, passing by the Vosges mountains, all the way and arrived about 4 30, at the Hotel des Trois. Rois; passed the evening with Mr. Conti, our Consul here, in their garden very pleasantly.

5TH.-Went over the old church here; very ancient and curious, with its rare stone carved pulpit; and then through the Holbein gallery. He seems to have been a Rubens and a Raphael combined. The series of his paintings of the Sacred History, from the Temptation in the Garden to the Cruci

The old chests for

fixion, and the Dance of Death are here, and also portraits of himself, of Luther, and Erasmus. How bright their colors are! How beautiful their drawings! Went into the room where sat the great council of Basle. their Acta and their old beds are still there, of the era of 1450, and still unaltered. Took the diligence at two and a half P. M. for Neuchatel. All the way, we drove through the Munster Thal, a famed mountain pass. Continual precipices beckoned over us, many hundred feet high with fierce mountain torrents, and everywhere the winding road seems locked in by impenetrable mountains. Rode all night.

7TH.-About nine A. M. arrived at Neuchatel and stopped at Hotel des Alps. Called on Mr. B. at his fine mansion house here. Received many letters from S. W. D., R., D., B., F., C. and D.; and all were answered by the ninth inst.; and also at the same time wrote to Mr. M. Spent the rest of the day in writing and reading letters.

6TH.-Rainy; letter writing, &c.

8TH.-Fine Sunday. After dinner, Brustlein, Beguin and I went up the mountain of Chaumont on foot, a walk of five miles, very severe work, but the view up there, and down through this valley and on the other side is magnificent. Three Lakes, Neuchatel, Brienz, and Morat with their towns and villages, and the far off Alps, the Jungfrau, Mont Blanc and the whole range of the Bernese Oberland.

; 9TH.-Very much fatigued; to day it is rainy, staid at home, letters &c.; among others wrote enclosing introduc

tion to G. G. Fendler and Co., at Nuremberg, saying I would be there, between the tenth and fifteenth of December, and asking them to receive my letters; also, likewise enclosed introduction to Mr. Donelson, envoy at Berlin, saying I would be there shortly after the 15th of September, and asking him to keep my letters, also, likewise to Mr. Stiles, our Charge at Vienna, saying I expect to be there, about the first of October, and to keep letters enclosing introductions. 10TH.-Morning, letter writing as usual. Dined with party at Mr. Brustlein's, and rode up Chaumont again. 11TH. Unwell; at home, letter writing.

12TH.-Morning, enclosed pictures and memoranda, by the hand of Mr. Kueughi, to be delivered to A. in London, to be forwarded home; also a letter to do; also a letter to Tupper to be posted. In the afternoon took a fine drive with Mr. Beguin; returned about nine P. M., fatigued and retired early.

AUG. 13TH. All day letter writing. Supped and spert the evening with Mr. Brustlein.

14TH.-Busy in the morning packing. Mr. Kuenghi left to-day, taking our letters with him and also the bundle for R. Dined with Mr. Brustlein; at 5 P. M. took the diligence which stopped here for me, and sitting in the coupse enjoyed a fine ride in beautiful weather through smiling harvest fields, and fine scenery, and arrived at Fribourg at Zahringen Hof about 10 P. M.

15тн.-After walking about this curious mountain-built