PREFACE.

(B HAVING formerly visited Germany, and having continued

to feel an interest in every thing connected with that country during the period that Englishmen were precluded from entering it,[ was anxious, on the return of tranquillity, to view again the scenes I had formerly beheld; and to ascertain, by personal examination, the effects which the domination of France had produced. IÎ was prevented from gratifying my wish at the early period I intended, when the traces made by à conquering enemy must have been most marked and

distinguishable.

Six years had elapsed between the period of the expulsion of the enemy and the time of my visit; it, therefore, became difficult to ascertain what impediments or encouragements to improvement the occupation had occasioned. The condition of most of the places through which I passed, the cultivation of the soil, the state of the roads, the entertainment at the hotels, and the manner of conducting the various manufactures, { were better than when I visited the country twenty-two years

before. The manners of the inhabitants appear to have