Note 30b — NAMES OF THE CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, CASTLES, MONASTERIES, etc. ON THE BANKS OF THE DANUBE, FROM RATISBON TO VIENNA.

No very liberal boon, Mr. Russel! What! In a country where wood is to this day the staple commodity? where the greater part of the revenue of many of the nobles, and the entire incomes of thousands of the peasantry, are derived from the sale of the trees with which nature has so lavishly clothed the land? from the produce of those very “acres of wood,” which you, from some strange slip of memory, describe as “utterly unproductive to the public.” The “peaceful sons of the church,” amongst whom, of course, you number the warlike bishops of Passau, Strasburgh, Bamberg, Freysingen, Ratisbon, et hoc genus omne, knew uncommonly well the value of those unproductive acres.