. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. erfectly flat. I was obliged to button my waist-coat tight over my sketch-book, for very soon myumbrella was of no use whatever, and so I arrivedhere to dinner about one oclock. I had my break-fast in the following place. [ Viele page 234.] Weissenburg, August 8th. I sketched this on the spot with a pen, so do notlaugh at the bold stream. I passed the night veryuncomfortably at Boltigen. There was no room inthe inn, owing to a fair, so I was obliged to lodgoin an adjacent house, where there were swarms ofvermin quite as bad as in Italy, a creaking houseclo
. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. erfectly flat. I was obliged to button my waist-coat tight over my sketch-book, for very soon myumbrella was of no use whatever, and so I arrivedhere to dinner about one oclock. I had my break-fast in the following place. [ Viele page 234.] Weissenburg, August 8th. I sketched this on the spot with a pen, so do notlaugh at the bold stream. I passed the night veryuncomfortably at Boltigen. There was no room inthe inn, owing to a fair, so I was obliged to lodgoin an adjacent house, where there were swarms ofvermin quite as bad as in Italy, a creaking houseclock, striking hoarsely every hour, and a baby thatBcreeched the whole night. I really could not helpfor a tirae noticing the childs cries, for it screamedin every possible key, expressive of every possibleemotion ; first angry, then furious, then whining, andwhen it could screech no longer, it grunted in adeep bass. Let no one teil me that we must wishto return to the days of onr childhood, because chil-20* 234 mendelssoiins LETTERj?.. dreii are so happy. I am convinced that sucli alittle mortal as tliis, flies into a rage just as we do,and lias also liis slccpless nights, and bis passions,and so forth. This philosopliical view occurred to me tliis mom-ing, while I was sketcliing Wcisscnburg, and so Iwislicd to communicate it to you on tlic spot; but ] SIEBETHAL. 235 took up the Constitutionnel, in wliich I read tliatCasimir Perier wishes to resign, and many otherthings that furnish matter for reflection; amongothers a most reraarkable article on the cholera,which I should like to transcribe, for it is so extra-ordinary. The existence of tliis disease is totallyand absolutely denied; only one person had it inDantzic,—a Jew,—and he got well. Then followeda number of Hegelisms in French, and the elec-tion of the deputies—oh world!—As soon as I hadfinished reading the paper, I was obliged to set offagain in the rain through the meadows. No suchenchanling country as this is
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