the further end of it, is considered to be one of the finest in Europe:  but, when I attempted to enjoy it, every feature of the landscape was obscured by drizzling rain.  “It always rains at Salzburg!”—­said, as you may remember, the postilion from Lauffen.  It may do so:  but a gleam of sunshine always enlivens that moment, when I subscribe myself, as I do now, your affectionate and faithful friend.

[77] See vol. i. p. 199.

[78] It is thus entitled:  Bibliothecae Ingolstadiensis Incunabula
    Typographica, 1787, 4to.:  containing four parts.  A carefully
    executed, and indispensably necessary, volume in every bibliographical
    collection.

[79] [I rejoice to add, in this edition of my Tour, that the LOST SHEEP has
    been FOUND.  It had not straggled from the fold when I was at Landshut;
    but had got penned so snugly in some unfrequented corner, as
    not to be perceived.]

[80] [A vision, however, which AGAIN haunts me!]

[81] This copy has since reached England, and has been arrayed in a goodly
    coat of blue morocco binding.  Whether it remain in Cornhill at this
    precise moment, I cannot take upon me to state; but I can confidently
    state that there is not a finer copy of the edition in question
    in his Britannic Majesty’s united dominions. [This copy
    now—­1829—­ceases to exist... in Cornhill.]

[82] On consulting the Typog.  Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 510, I found
    my conjectures confirmed.  The reader will there see the full title of
    the work—­beginning thus:  “Eruditissimi Viri Guilelmi Rossei opus
    elegans, doctum, festiuum, pium, quo pulcherrime retegit, ac refellit,
    insanas Lutheri calumnias,” &c. It is a volume of considerable
    rarity.

[83] The charges were moderate.  A bottle of the best red ordinary wine
    (usually—­the best in every respect) was somewhere about 1s. 6d.  Our
    lodgings, two good rooms, including the charge of three wax candles,
    were about four shillings per day.  The bread was excellent, and the
    cuisine far from despicable.

[84] We learn from Pez (Austriacar.  Rer. vol. ii. col. 185, taken
    from the Chronicle of the famous Admont Monastery,) that, in
    the year 1128, the cathedral and the whole city of Salzburg were
    destroyed by fire.  So, that the antiquity of this, and of other
    relics, must not be pushed to too remote a period.

[85] Before the reader commences the above account of a visit to this
    monastery, he may as well be informed that the SUBJOINED bird’s-eye
    view of it, together with an abridged history (compiled from
    Trithemius, and previous chroniclers) appears in the
    Monasteriologia of Stengelius, published in 1619, folio.

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