Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Bad roads through Swabi, 'lafftn. Tirokfe mountaini and pafies. LETTER V. Journey through Tirol, and account of the city of Infpruck. S I R, the country in general FROM Lindau to Tirol te country n genera s very indifferent, a great part of it hilly with woods and bad roads, especially betwixt Kempten and Kempten- wald; and what makes thefe bad roads the worfe, is the humour of fome travellers in tiring their own carriages, by which the ruts are made too narrow and inconvenient for any other. Fufleri lies on the frontiers towards Tirol, is well built with uniform and broad ftreets, and belongs to the bifliop of Augfburg: in approaching it you go a confiderable way a'ong the river Leek, which forms feveral agreeable cafcades. A quarter of a league beyond Fuflen begins the Tiro- lefe chain of mountains. At the Kniepafs the paflports required of travellers are figncd, and atReuten, a middling; town in the valley, they are produced to the commanding officer there, by whom another certificate of the big- nefs of half a flieet, and ftamped with the Tirolefe eagle, muft be figned; as without this there's no pafling through the Ehrenburgher-claufe. The like precaution is ufed on the other fides of this county, by which means the governor at Infpruck daily knows within twenty-four hours what perfons are come into his province. The pafles into this country are fo far from being free and eafy, that it is entirely furrounded with a continued chain of mountains: at a diftance you are often at a lofs to diftinguifh the paflage, and when after many windings you are come to an opening, you find it fecured by ftrong forts. Charles Philip, elector palatine, brother to the emprefs Eleonora, in 1712, when he was governor of this country, affured M. Forftner the priv...