A Tour in Catholic Teutonia, Part III [pp. 11-22]

A TO UR IN CA THOLIC TEUTONIA.
A TOUR IN CATHOLIC TEUTONIA.
PART III.
BEFORE leaving Salzburg, a city which is so full of interest to
the Catholic and the antiquarian, we felt it incumbent upon us to
take such survey of its topographical surroundings as was permitted us by the amendment which, at the end of our stay, took
place in its proverbially bad weather. The old city nestles beneath a lofty, elongated hill-the M\1nchsberg-on the left bank of
the very rapid Salzach, while a modern suburb is growing at the
foot of the opposite and more lofty Kapuzinerberg. A pleasant
walk extends along the summit of the former hill, and thence
may be descried both the lofty and irregular mountain ranges to
the south and east and the wide-stretching, flat plain to the north;
the river rushes on northwards and westwards on its way to join
the Inn.
It was through the defiles of these southern mountains that
we drove to visit Berchtesgaden and the Kinigs-See, situated on
that Bavarian tongue of land, projecting into Austrian territory,
which was assigned by the Congress of Vienna to the potentate
of Munich as a "happy hunting-ground."
The delights of the Bavarian part of the Salzkammergut, the
picturesqueness of Berchtesgaden, and the wild chlarm of the K6nigs-See and Ober-See have been described over and over again.
We shall here, therefore, almost entirely confine ourselves to a
few notes which may be of interest to the Catholic tourist. To
him, however, as being, after all, a tourist, we would recommend
that on no account should this charming excursion be omnitted.
The sylvan scenery it can boast is such as we have most rarely
met with elsewhere, and we would further recommend that it
should be thoroughly enjoyed in a comfortable landau and pair,
to the careful avoidance of all the public vehicles, as well as of
hired ones that will not shut up.
On a bright and balmy ist of September we set off by halfpast eight in pursuit of the object of Dr. Syntax's first journey.
The road winds, at starting, round beneath the episcopal palatial
fortress (at the south end of the NlMnchsberg), and continues on
by Gr6ding, with its manufactory of boys' marbles, and under the
great and savage Untersberg, wherein, buried beneath six thousand
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