New-York tribune., 1841-09-10
From The New Yorker.
rrTTFRs FROM THE HEART Or EUROPE.
Muxlcn. Mon sy. July 70, Is4L

month have accomplished 20 many sights that
carce know where begin to cnuEeTate them -
cb for allowing these things to accumulate left Fcnra
on Friday June 10, and handsome boat called ths
Stephan The Danube for twenty thirty miles aboEe
Vienna ike that part below spreads out over nat land
divided islands, and its banks, though generally WEI
wooded arc destitute Of thing like beauty Alter ts-
mountains either side and gradually become gner
and reaching nearly Linz the scenery is bold and p
,uresoue gloomy forests clothing the sides from the ou
ta-tops 10 the edge river al one moment d
and deep and al another white Sith IFS oaniDg rapid
Occasionally pcrched the summit oi some iish ana PR"
ciptos rock and sometimes nearly ovcraHging the r
are seen the batemented walls and onheeP inc PIC
tnresuue OF old Castle "tIe, nesting al tn'r
base lies some small village with lis monac tower or qnan
spire On tho summit OF hign cpnlca rock, whose Dc
rises abruptly the hsured with cleita and oAs
with ponted pnnacc and destitute OF vegetation ihat
% i;a;cn m distinguish the ruin from the rock which sup
ports it, those robbers nests the Castle OF Dunc
s;en famed a having been the prison OF Richard Cuur DE-
Lion The descending voyage occupies only about twelve
hours but owing the force and Hpldy ot the current
we were hirtyx hours ascending Az Linz spent
day-wen thence BY small railroad 10 Gninden fory-hv
miles and bv steamboat lake, beautifully situate
amidst the SasbHrg Alps ISchl. small celebrated
for its Brine Baths and the beauty 1t. situations mas BE-
come quite fashionable wa;orngPace attracting even Tho
Mobiles from the Provinces Of Austria and Bavaria lsch
situated nearly the centre OF ronunuc district called IN
Salzkamnnergu teraiv, property OF the Sait-ChaTnber
and allowed By all g.idc-books and travellers to be ne
mos, picturesque district OF Europe The scenery OF the
eSaztamnereut' with it, beautiful valleys ntersPerSed
with and OF crystal purity and bounded on every
side BY the Alps with their peaks although not so oo
i. We, more and think beautiful that OF Switzerland
From Ischl went by iohnkutscher (veiturnol To
Salzburg, where ! remained but days, although the
beauty of its situation and sights perhaps sufficient p
deain traveller four OF FIVE Murrays Guide-Book says
Salzburg allowed. By consent, TO be the most
beautiful spot Germany. But the interesting Oh
ects of this section the Justly celebrated SatMncs AT
Halen eight miles distant Our party consisted OF eight
persons and except myself and Frenchnan all Germans
At the Office Of the Superintendent near the entrance we
were each provided with suit of miners clothes to draw
over own including caherapron TO tasen on peiihu
cap and stout leather glove for the right hand thus
equip, ed each carrying torch and with three miners IA
guides single file; appearance reminded ne
Of gang of gaey-slayes such have often going 10
labor The is through small hole near the sum
init of high mountain called the Donenstcn from tins
through horizontal passage only vide enough to admit o
one person to pass and barely high enough 10
stand upright this tunnel extends into the mountain three
thousand feet and the end Of this is the first shaft like
dark WELL and three hundred and fifty feet deep Is not
quite perpendicular the descent Is made on sort OF IN
cned plane consisting st noeth poles running at the
same angle with the shaft and about foot apart the guide
seats himself across these resting leg either pole and
taking right hand rope fastened above and below
serving u baus,radc We initiated HIM, taking places
in the same manner behind the oher(recoec, all this
took place and ioe mine without knowing exactly what II
was all about the guides and my companions all talk
ing German, and ceuld not understand them When MI
was ready the leader launched himself forth, and the
descended with rapdity beginner like myself real!
frightfu and the first distinct ntmaton had OF such
hole or continuance when found myself (more than
half mile in the interior of mountan) suddenly sinking
the earth the OF twenty-five miles hour, and
without the power stop myself The first thing began
90 think Of as could think OF any thing where
;kis hole end had end "a curiosity laudabc
enough, you will admit. The suddenness and novelty OF
this first, though somewhat startling exciting and be
tore through thought good fun; at the bot
tom Of this wa passed through another of passages
extensive than the first in which the miners at work
at the end OF which another descent and until We
had descended less than four o these shafts and svcr
many Of galleries and had penetrated into the bowels
Of the earth depth of less than fourteen hundred feet
a, the bottom sf the last descent reached large chamber
filed with water, resembling subterraneous lake. which :
gradually being converted brine by dissoying the salt
on sides; this illuminated for reception by mel
ahead for tho purpose terried II III
large abotoncd boat; from this proceeding along another
gallery few hundred yards We found two small carnage
waiting for US these simply long pole placed be
tween two pairs of wheels this radded though OF
horseback the passage being keeping knee
close the pole and pushed along by the miners at
quick pace This last gallery is eight thousand and forty
feet in length.
The first appearance daylight is like bright
end passage ard in few minutes after found our
selves in open the foot of the mountain and cos
town; this altogether novel and interesting eN
the salt does line sparkle from the walls ~
cstsl masses many travellers suppose but inersperse
veins and threads informing led with Kind OF bltuuno
clay, mari and gypsu and the Of OBJ ainiug By
h!ng large chambers with and gradually converting
the salt from sides and brine which conducted
off in pipes the eyapoting houses those always siuS
atcd in district well supplied with fuel and u
frequently twenty Thirty miles from the nines these cham
bers h!ed with from three hun
dred feet IN circumference and frequently above
another; the one we crossed in boat Parposey keP hal
lled 10 show viSters the obtained fifteen los
pure salt cubic foot water These mines have bee,
worked for than six hundred years and so great the
of the galleries and passages that ii Is said nore thai
week would be required TO explore them all We were IN
the mines abou, four hours and Judged walked fully ten
miles. At Sazburg | parted with clever fellow :,
Freedman had travelled together from, Vienna and
came BY the Diligence place, Munich the l7tf June
The Bavarian Capital contains population OF nearly o
hundred thousand; the Ike those OF Gerns
towns present that old quaint appearance ssch see -
the pictures by the old Dutch masierlhe houses
gu!a in their size FORM ,hcr fronts crowded with win
aows and onamen,ed with paintings tucco scroll work
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