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Title: Harper's new monthly magazine
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Harper & Brothers John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Subjects: Culture Civilization American literature
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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al craving for more. This watering-place, once so frequented, isnow comparatively deserted. But fifty guestswere present, and they did not appear to be verysplendid persons. The grounds, however, wereenlivened by the presence of the youths and maid-ens from Hof. I visited the Kurhaus, lookedinto the icy plunge-baths of the Hydropathic es-tablishment, tasted some very hard water, andthen took the broad birchen avenue which climbsto the Luisenburg. On entering the forest I be-held a monument erected to commemorate thepresence of Ered. Wilhelm III. and Louisa ofPrussia, in 1805. On this very spot, saidmy guide, the King and Queen, with KingMax. I. of Bavaria and the Emperor of Aus-tria (!), were talking together, when the newscame to them that Napoleon was in Vienna.They hired a man to go to Nuremberg and seewhether it was true. The man—he is still liv-ing, and we shall probably see him this afternoon(in fact, I did see him)—walked all the way (nine- 156 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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KLiNUiSKB UKOTTO. ty English miles) in twenty-four hours, then rest-ed twenty-four more, and walked back in the sametime. Then the King of Prussia immediatelywent home and decided to fight against Napo-leon, which was the cause of the battle of Leip-zig! The road slowly but steadily ascended, and inhalf an hour we reached the commencement ofthe Luisenburg. Huge, mossy rocks, piled atopof one another in the wildest confusion, overhungthe way, and the firs, which grew wherever theirtrunks could be wedged in, formed a sun-proofcanopy far above them. This labyrinth of co-lossal granite boulders, called the Luisenburg(or, more pioperly, the Lugsburg, its originalname), extends to the summit of the mountain,a distance of 1100 feet. It is a wilderness ofTitanic grottoes, arcbes, and oen abutments ofregular masonry, of astonishing magnitude. Ihave seen similar formations in Saxony, butnone so curiously contorted and hurled together. Although this place has been, for the pasteighty years, a fa

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