till its roar and agitation became, through distance, inconsiderable.

After a long ascent, the shades of evening reposing in the valleys,
and the upland snows still tinged with a vivid red, we reached
Schonberg, a village well worthy of its appellation: and then,
twilight drawing over us, began to descend. We could now but faintly
discover the opposite mountains, veined with silver rills, when we
came once more to the banks of the Inn. This turbulent stream
accompanied us all the way to Steinach, and broke by its continual
roar the stillness of the night, which had finished half its course
before we were settled to rest.

July 28th.--I rose early to scent the fragrance of the vegetation,
bathed in a shower which had lately fallen, and looking around me,
saw nothing but crags hanging over crags, and the rocky shores of the
stream, still dark with the shade of the mountains. The small
opening in which Steinach is situated, terminates in a gloomy strait,
scarce leaving room for the road and the torrent, which does not
understand being thwarted, and will force its way, let the pines grow
ever so thick, or the rocks be ever so considerable.

Notwithstanding the forbidding air of this narrow dell, Industry has
contrived to enliven its steeps with habitations, to raise water by
means of a wheel, and to cover the surface of the rocks with soil.
By this means large crops of oats and flax are produced, and most of
the huts have gardens adjoining, which are filled with poppies,
seeming to thrive in this parched situation.


"Urit enim lini campum seges, urit avenae,