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 right and left. The left leads to an interesting freak of nature, called “Buchen- und Tannenehe” (Marriage of the Beeches and Firs). To the right we mount a steep path to the Hammerkapelle, and walk on comfortably over the ridge of the Hammerberg to its highest place, called Franz Josef’s Height, and affording perhaps the finest and most varied view of all the mountains round Carlsbad, as the eye rests on Hammer, as well as on the greater part of the town and on the Erzgebirge. Here has been erected of late a very high and ornamental Tower at a great cost; the view from it is sublime. Descending on the other side of the Hammerberg, we reach the road leading to Findlater’s Tempel, and return, as already described, to the Freundschaftssaal, or by turning first to the left and then to the right, we get on the road to the Farnassfels, and from there to the Restaurant Sans-souci.

10. To the Russell Sitz.— We traverse the Schlossbrunngasse and pass on to the highway leading to the Jägersaal; passing the bowling-green, we reach the forest, and, after about eight minutes’ walk, an open space, where, turning to the left, we ascend for eighteen minutes, and arrive at the Russell Sitz, a neat little place on a rock, with a fine view of the Erzgebirge through an opening in the woods. The road to the left leads us to