Excerpt from Austria: Vienna, Prague, Etc; Etc The piece of Bohemia which first becomes visible to the enraptured eye of the traveller, from the heights of N ollendorf is the valley of the Bila, and so lovely is the view that there presents itself, that every one who sees it for the first time, however he may have been pre pared beforehand, will be likely to exclaim with our fair companion, Heavens! What beautiful country is that? Along winding roads the diligence descends gradually into othe valley, accompanied the whole way by a troop of children, who, in ex change for raspberries and strawberries, levy a little frontier-tribute on the traveller, and greet him on his entrance into a new country with the pious salutation, Blessed be Jesus Chiist The three eagles, whose wings upon these heights fluttered so fatally around the French legions; have erected three monuments upon the field of battle, and weather-beaten veterans are stationed there as sentinels. English travel lers, on passing the place, are wont to note down very conscientiously how many hundred weight of metal have gone to the composition of each monument. Our Englishman wrote among his memoranda that the Austrian was large and solid, the Prussian very small, and the Russian remarkable for its elegance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.