In this we took the usual tour of those days, _via_ Brussels and the Rhine to Switzerland, and I might quote plenty thereof if space and time allowed.

Here shall follow a casual page from the 1829 MS.

Journal, now before me.
"Heidelberg has a university of seven hundred students, who wear no particular academicals, but are generally seen with a little red or blue cap topping a luxuriant head of hair, a long coat, and moustaches which usually perform the function of a chimney to pipe or cigar.

All along our to-day's route extended immense fields of tobacco, turnips, and vegetals of every description.

Most of the women seem to be troubled with goitres, and we observed that all who have them wear rows of garnets strung tight on the part affected, whether with the idea of hiding the deformity, or of rendering the beauty of the swelling more conspicuous, or of charming it away, I cannot tell.