OR, A WINTER IN LOWER STYRIA. BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, ROYAL NAVY. F. R. S. ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH; WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI. ADVERTISEMENT. HAVING on three different occasions made excursions on the Continent, under circumstances of considerable variety, it lately occurred to me that selections from my journals might perhaps be favourably received, either by persons who had never visited the scenes described, or by those who had already seen them, but might choose to view them again through the eyes of another. I accordingly set to work to skim off such parts of my notes as, either from the buoyancy of the expression, or from retaining a portion of the freshness of original interest, had floated to the surface. But I soon found these SKIMMINGS accumulate under my hands in much greater quantity than I had anticipated, or than, I feared, might be relished by others. M216888 |