The Tyrolefe Alps are not as beautiful as thofe of Savoy, though the river that runs between them is wider too; but that very circumftance takes from the horror which conftitutes beauty in a rocky country, while a navigable ftream and the paffage of large floats convey ideas of commerce and focial life, leaving little room for the folitary fancies produced, and the ftrokes of fublimity indelibly impreffed, by the mountains of La Haute Morienne, The fight of a town where all the theological learning of Europe was once concentred, affords however much ground of mental amufement; while the fight of two nations, not naturally congenial, living happily together, as the Germans and Italians here do, is pleafing to all.

We faw the apartments of the Prince Bifhop, but found few things worth remarking, except that in the pictures of Carlo Loti there is a fhade of the Flemifh fchool to be difcerned, which was pretty as we are now hard upon the confines. Our fovereign here keeps his little menagerie in a mighty elegant ftyle : the animals poffefs an infulated rock, furrounded by the Adige, and planted with every thing that can pleafe them bell; the wild, or more properly the predatory creatures, are confined, but in very fpacious apartments ; with each a handfome outlet for amufement: while fuch as are granivorous rove at pleafure over their domain, to which their matter often comes in fummer to eat ice at a banquetting houfe erected for him in the middle, whence a profpedt of a peculiar nature is enjoyed; great beauty, much variety, and a very limited horizon, like fome of the views about Bath.