At The Polytechnic School
One Of The Principal Professors Is A Friend Of Mr F - - - 's, And He
Explained To Us The Nature Of The Establishment And The Course Of Studies
Pursued.
The apparatus for every branch of science is on the grandest
scale.
After dinner we repaired to the Prater, crossing a branch of the
Danube which here forms several islands. The Prater requires and deserves
particular mention. Part of it is something in the style of the Champs
Elysees at Paris, and it is fully equal to it in the variety of amusements
and enjoyments to be met with there; but it is far larger and more
beautiful on account of its landscape and the diversified manner in which
the grounds are laid out. The Prater, then, is an immense park, laid out
on an island of considerable extent on the Danube. The nearest faubourg to
it is the Leopoldstadt, which is also the most fashionable one, and a
bridge conducts you from that faubourg direct into the Prater. The
Prater presents a mixture of garden, meadow, upland and forest; the lofty
trees arranged in avenues or in clumps give a delightful protecting shade.
On the road destined for the carriages there is every afternoon a most
brilliant display of carriages. Another avenue is destined for equestrians,
and two avenues, one on each side of these two, for pedestrians. There are
besides winding footpaths, that conduct you all over this vast extent of
ground, and circular grass plots surrounded by trees where the pedestrian
may repose and eat and drink if he will.
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