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arrived with her husband, on a visit to the empress.

The imperial family are uncommonly welllooking, and have a very strong family likeness. Their complexion is fair, with large blue eyes, and some of them are distinguished by the thick lip, so long remarked in the Austrian family.

One of the unmarried archduchesses, who was formerly thought the most beautiful, had suffered considerably by the smallpox. "A court lady," says Dr. Moore, "told me, that as soon as this princess understood what her disease was, she called for a looking-glass, and, with unaffected pleasantry, took leave of those features she had once heard praised, and which she believed would be greatly changed." This required greater equanimity in a fine woman, in the bloom of youth, than most reverses of fortune which could have befallen her.

Our travellers no where spent their time more agreeably than in Vienna. There was not such a constant round of amusements, as to fill up a man's time, without any plan or occupation of his own; and yet there was enough to satisfy any mind, not perfectly vacant and dependent on external objects. They dined abroad two or three times in a week; and sometimes saw a little play, but no deep gaming. At some houses there was no play of any kind; but a species of conversatione.

Indeed, there is no city in Europe, in Dr. Moore's opinion, where a young gentleman, after his university education is finished, can pass a year with so much advantage; because, if properly recommended, he may mix, on an easy

footing, with people of rank, and have opportunities of improving, by the conversation of sensible men and accomplished women.

In no capital could he see fewer examples or have fewer opportunities, of deep gaming, open profligacy, or gross debauchery. He may learn to pass his time agreeably, independent of a continued round of amusements. He may be gradually led to enjoy a rational conversation; and, at length, acquire the blessed faculty of acquiescing in moderate pleasures.

After they had sojourned some time in Vienna, they had an invitation from M. de Breteuil, to dine on the top of Mount Calenberg, in the vicinity of this city. Common carriages cannot be dragged up it, on account of its steepness; and, therefore, there are some of a particular construction, calculated for such expeditions.

Having reached the summit, where there is a convent of monks, their eyes were feasted with two landscapes of very opposite features. The one consists of a series of wild mountains; the other of the imperial city of Vienna, with the various branches of the Danube flowing through a rich champaign of boundless extent.

The dinner-table was placed in a field, under the shade of some trees. Every delicacy of the season was served up. Madame de Matignon, a very beautiful and sprightly lady, daughter to their host, did the honours. Some of the finest women of Vienna, her companions, were of the company; and the whole entertainment was conducted with equal taste and gaiety.

During the dessert, some of the fathers of the convent, came and presented the company with

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