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PREFACE.
PART I.?1840. LETTER I. PROJECT FOR SPENDING THE SUMMER ON THE BANKS OF THE LAKE OF COMO.?FINE SPRING.?STORMY WEATHER.?PASSAGE FROM DOVER TO CALAIS.?THE DILIGENCE.?PARIS.?PLAN OF OUR ROUTE LETTER II. JOURNEY TO METZ.?A DAY SPENT AT METZ.?PROCEED TO TREVES.?ENTER PRUSSIA.?TREVES.?VOYAGE DOWN THE MOSELLE.?SLOW STEAMBOAT UP THE RHINE TO MAYENCE.?RAILROAD TO FRANCFORT LETTER III. DARMSTADT.?HEIDELBERG.?CARLSRUHE.?BADEN-BADEN LETTER IV. OFFENBERG.?ETTENHEIM.?FREYBURG.?THE HOLLENTHAL.?THE BLACK FOREST.?ARRIVE AT SCHAFFHAUSEN LETTER V. THE RHINE.?ZURICH.?JOURNEY TO COIRE.?VIA MALA.?THE SPLUGEN.?CHIAVENNA.?COLICO.?THE STEAMBOAT ON THE LAKE OF COMO TO CADENABBIA LETTER VI. ALBERGO GRANDE DELLA CADENABBIA.?THE BROTHERS BRENTANI.?THE VIEW FROM OUR WINDOWS.?THE MADMAN.?ARRIVAL OF THE BOAT LETTER VII. EXCURSIONS ON THE LAKE.?MANZONI’S ODE OF “CINQUE MAGGIO” LETTER VIII. VOYAGE TO COMO.?THE OPERA.?WALK TOWARDS MENAGGIO LETTER IX. ITALIAN POETRY.?ITALIAN MASTER.?THE COUNTRY PEOPLE.?THE FULCINO.?GRAND FESTA.?ADIEU TO CADENABBIA LETTER X. VOYAGE TO LECCO.?BERGAMO.?THE OPERA OF “MOSE.”?MILAN LETTER XI. NON-ARRIVAL OF A LETTER.?DEPARTURE OF MY FRIENDS.?SOLITUDE.?THE DUOMO.?TABLE D’HOTE.?AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT LETTER XII. DEPARTURE FROM MILAN.?JOURNEY ACROSS THE SIMPLON.?LAKE OF GENEVA.?LYONS.?STEAMBOAT TO CHALONS.?DILIGENCE TO PARIS.?HISTORY OF THE EVENTFUL JOURNEY ACROSS MONT ST. GOTHARD PART II.?1842. LETTER I. STEAM VOYAGE TO AMSTERDAM.?RUBENS’ PICTURE OF THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.?VARIOUS MISADVENTURES.?LIEGE.?COLOGNE.?COBLENTZ.?MAYENCE.?FRANCFORT LETTER II. JOURNEY TO KISSINGEN.?TAKING LODGINGS.?THE PUBLIC GARDENS LETTER III. KISSINGEN.?THE CUR.?THE TABLE D’HOTE.?THE WALKS.?GERMAN MASTER.?BATHING LETTER IV. MEDICAL TREATMENT.?AMUSEMENTS.?GERMAN MASTER.?BROKLET.?PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE LETTER V. LEAVE KISSINGEN.?BATHS OF BRUKENAU.?FULDA.?EISENACH.?CASTLE OF WARTBURGH.?GOTHA.?ERFURT.?WEIMAR.?THE ELSTER.?LEIPSIG LETTER VI. RAILROAD TO BERLIN.?UNTER-DEN-LINDEN.?GALLERY.?PALACE.?MUSEUM.?OPERA.?IRON FOUNDRY LETTER VII. ARRIVAL AT DRESDEN.?RABENAU.?GALLERY AT DRESDEN.?MADONNA DI SAN SISTO.?PICTURES OF CORREGGIO LETTER VIII. RABENAU.?THE GALLERY.?THE TERRACE OF BRUHL.?THE GROSSE GARTEN.?THE GREAT HEAT LETTER IX. THE GREEN VAULTS.?COLLECTION OF PORCELAIN.?DER FREISCHUTZ.?THE GREAT DROUGHT.?PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE LETTER X. THE SAXON SWITZERLAND LETTER XI. BATHS AT TOPLITZ.?LOBOSITZ.?ARRIVAL AT PRAGUE END OF VOL. I. |