visited Burgher School there, 700 children. Birth-place
and monument of Goethe.

_Oct. 5th._--Strasburg. Left Frankfort; passed through Darmstadt;
heard two sermons in French, and one in German; visited the
magnificent Cathedral, and Normal School.

_Oct. 7th._--Zurich. Came to Bale yesterday; arrived here this
morning; visited the great Cantonal Industrial School--noble
building.

_Oct. 8th._--Cargon. Obtained much information from the director of
the Gymnase, Real and Higher Burgher School here.

_Oct. 9th._--Berne. Travelled through a mountainous and picturesque
country to Papiermuehle; walked three miles to the celebrated school
of M. de Fallenberg; had the whole system explained--gymnasium,
real, intermediate, poor, and limited to the number of thirty;
dined at the Agricultural School,--situated on a gentle hill, in
the midst of the valley of Switzerland, surrounded by mountains,--I
have been abundantly repaid in spending a whole day in surveying
such an establishment.

_Oct. 11th._--Lausanne. Fine view of the Alps; visited the garden
where Gibbon finished his History on the rise and fall of the Roman
Empire.

_Oct. 12th._--Geneva. Arrived here in heavy rain; attended three
services; visited the tomb of Sir H. Davy; had a fine view of Mt.
Blanc; left for Paris.

CHAPTER XLV.

1844-1857.

Episode in Dr. Ryerson's European Travels.--Pope Pius IX.

One of the many episodes in my European travels which I have been
requested by many to narrate led to my presentation to Pope Pius IX.,
and is as follows:--

On my arrival in England on my first educational tour, near the end
of 1844, I was invited to a Christmas dinner party at the house of
an English clergyman, where I was introduced to a young Russian
nobleman, by the name of Dunjowski, who had attended lectures in
several German universities, and came to England to learn the
English language, in which he soon became a proficient. During his
residence in England he became acquainted with a number of
distinguished men, noblemen and others; among whom were the late
Rev. Dr. Chalmers. This young Russian nobleman, having learned that
I was on a tour of investigation of the educational institutions of
Europe, proposed before the close of the evening to join me in
investigating the