ENVIRONS OF WILDBAD.

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Enzklösterle. This, like tlie former, is but an inn at present; but it bas seen bcfter times. Formerly it was a convent, fountled in 1145, but forced to surrender in the times of the Reformation. Enzklösterle is not so much frequented ou its own account, but for the sake of the fine scenery on each side of Ihe road, and for bring a point of reposc to tbose wbo are inclined to visit the higliland- mosses and the

Wild Iahe. — There are extensive plains on the top of many of the mountains of the Black Forest, where many thousand slieep and cattlc are fed: the shepherds pass the whole sunnner tliere with their flotks, and only leave tliem at the end of autumn. On onc of these, in the niidst of a pcat-iuoss, there is a lake, thirty morgens in oxtent, and 2817 F. above the sea-level; around it there are nearly fifty smaller lakes, which once, probably, all formed one pieee of water. On the eastside of it there is a canal, made to raise the water of the river Eyach during the time the wood floats down, and a subtcrranean outlet on the south- side very probably forms the source of the Rollwasser brook which rises at the distance of about a mile. — The lake formerly was thought unfathomable but upon being soun- ded by means of a raff, brought thither from Wildbad, only teil fect of water werc found. It bas not yet becn discovcrcd whetber this lake is fed by any source, or mc- rely by the rain and melted snow. No fish can live in it, though the experiment has beeil tried repeatedly; this is said to be owing to the phosphate of iron found at the bottoni. Still, the-water is as clear as crystal, and as blue as the sky. The wildness and dej.ressing solitude of the seenery is indcscribable; no living ereature is to be found here. At times only some wild duck or black cock ( caper- cailzie ) is rusticating here, wlien tired of the society of