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ways chose well the sites for their monasteries, and the preservation of an establishment of this sort in all its stateliness and wealth shows how little their power is broken down as yet in old Austria, as Prince Metternich calls it. It was a very interesting and a very strange sight to us, Protestants and Puritans. July 4.—. . . . Our next purpose was to pass the night at the monastery of St. Florian, another of the vast Benedictine establishments, which has existed here certainly since 1071, and which still remains in undiminished splendor. They have documents that go back to 819, and claim to have been founded in 455. At any rate, like all the other large and old monasteries in this part of Europe, it goes back to a period earlier than the building of the cities, which cannot be put farther back than the middle of the tenth century. It is to this period, when the influence of the monks was so valuable and beneficent, when they protected the poor peasantry from the lords of t