Wilkie has described is ( and Dr. Ralfe has republished the few graphic words in his own book) as “Edinboro, Castle and old town, brought within the cliffs of the Trossacks and watered by a river like the Jay”. He should have added, and the whole set in the midst of the great chain of northern alps which rises grandly around it all.

These alps are not chains of mountains really, but single peaks separated by deep ravines[.] They seem almost to overhand the wooded hills immediately surrounding the town about which they form a great natural basin in the midst of which the river swiftly flows.

The new town of Salzburg is like what any prosperous town of 25,000 inhabited by people of taste might grow to be, but the charm all lies in the old town and the great castle built on a rocky hill rising precipitously out of its very midst. The houses of the town literally straggle up to the castle, one street being built up the side of the hill on two sides of a flight of stone steps not 20 feet wide and the houses rising to 5 + 6 stories – a curious and picturesque sight[.]

All through this old town are the remains of antiquity, beautiful old buildings, carvings and monuments. The houses present a thousand and one slopes of roof and the plastered exteriors are tinted in pinks strawberries and lemons and browns of all shades and stained and discolored by the time and weather into such magic effects as no painted could outdo.

There are ___ _____ turrets, towers and corners latticed windows sunken windows and no windows at all where one window most expect them. And there are more kinds of balconies than windows with gay colored awnings and roofs of more kinds of reds than you can think.

The streets wander up and down and in and around and enter numerous squares with fountains and churches and through them wander people as picturesque as anything that envisions them. Women with wheelbarrows, men the hay ___ 20 feet long drawn by a single horse or cow and pole, little carts drawn by dogs and groups of women under great canvas umbrellas in the sun[.]

In this interesting town Mozart was born and there is a museum of family relics. His beautiful airs are rung out 3 times daily across the valley across the valley. (Chime of 37 bells)