I believe I have now told you all that appears worthy of being told, (as far as my own opportunities of observation have led me) of the CITY OF AUGSBOURG.  I shall leave it (to-morrow) with regret; since a longer residence would, I am persuaded, have introduced me to very pleasant society, and made me acquainted with antiquities, of all kinds, well deserving of some record, however trivial.  As it is, I must be content with what the shortness of my time, and the more immediately pressing nature of my pursuits, have brought me in contact.  A sight of the Crucifixion by Hans Burgmair, and the possession of the most genuine copy of the editio princeps of Horace, have richly repaid all the toil and expense of the journey from Stuttgart.  The Horace, and the Protestant Polish Bible of 1563, will be my travelling companions—­at least as far as Munich—­from whence my next despatch will be dated.[39] I hope, indeed, to dine at that renowned city ere “the set of to-morrow’s sun.”  In the mean while, adieu.

[31] His account of the PRINTED BOOKS in the XVth century, in the monastery
    above mentioned, was published in 1786, in 2 vols. 4to.  That of the
    MANUSCRIPTS, in the same monastic library, was published in 1791, in 2
    vols. or rather perhaps, six parts, 4to.

[32] Among the books in this monastery was an uncut copy of the famous
    edition of the Meditationes J. de Turrecremata, of the date of
    1467, which is now in the Library of Earl Spencer.  In Hartmann
    Schedel’s Chronicon Norimbergense, 1493, fol.  CLXII, are
    portraits of the Founders of the Town and Monastery of Eichstadt, or
    EISTETT; together with a large wood-cut view of the town.  This
    monastery appears to have been situated on a commanding eminence.

[33] [This Abbey was questionless one of the most celebrated and wealthy in
    Europe.  The antiquarian reader will be pleased with the OPPOSITE
    PLATE—­presenting a bird’s eye view of it, in the year 1619—­(when it
    stood in its pristine splendour) from the Monasteriologia,
    attached to the Imagines Sanctorum.]

[34] In the BAVARIA SANCTA of RADERUS, 1615-27, 3 vols. folio, will be
    found a succession of martyrological details—­adorned by a series of
    beautiful engravings by Ralph Sadeler.  The text is in Latin,
    and the author has apparently availed himself of all the accessible
    authorities, in manuscript and print, which were likely to give
    interest and weight to his narrative.  But it seems to have been
    composed rather for the sake of the ENGRAVINGS—­which are generally
    most admirably executed.  Great delicacy and truth of drawing, as well
    as elegance of grouping, are frequently discernible in them; and
    throughout the whole of the compositions there is much of the air of
    Parmegiano’s pencil; especially in the females.  Sadeler makes
    his monks and abbots quite gentlemen in their figures and
    deportment; and some of his miracles are described with great
    singularity and force of effect.