Vienna

St. Stephen's Cathedral

Funeral Vault of Imperial Family

The actual city of Vienna is comparatively small and encircled by walls and high ramparts, but the whole city is completely surrounded by suburbs some 34 in number all very regularly built, of great extent and containing some fine buildings. These suburbs are separated from the city by very broad boulevard or open space some quarter of a mile or less from the gates – making the whole more healthful, & more beautiful and at the same time making the delightful promenade. On leaving Vienna the view is most delightful – particularly in a fine moonlit night as we had. The Cathedral of Saint Stephen's is remarkably fine old Gothic building of great antiquity and having the finest tower I think I ever saw./^{465 ft} none of the other churches have anything particularly remarkable about them with the exception of one the church of the [80] Capuchins containing the tombs of the Royal family and among them the heart of the Duke of Reichstadt being a simple coffin only, with the inscription in Latin of "the son of Napoleon Emperor of Gallia." His grandfather's tomb is immediately next with. One other church contains a very fine monument by Canova to the memory of an Austrian Archduchess. Tis somewhat singular that Canova's own monument at Venice is very similar to this one here, being a pyramid of marble representing a two and a procession of figures going up the steps toward the open door of the sarcophagus – allegorical of course_____