The weather was so unpleasant where we were in Berlin that we could not make one or two excursions that we should have liked to viz to Potzdam. We passed through it in the evening on our way to Leipzig, and could gain but a passing view of its many fine palaces and other buildings. Stopped for breakfast on our journey at Wittenberg, still a fine looking old town, and [65] interesting in being the birth-place of the great reformation, a tree is shown outside the city where Luther publicly burned the Bull of Leo, excommunicating himself from the Holy Church.
The buildings of Leipzig are most singular in their foundation, in height almost equal to those of the old town of Eroinbró[?] – but their peculiarity consists in the shape of their roofs and thewondoes in them. The3 roofs are built, running up to a point and often equalin height to the remainder of the building, having generall three or four tiers of windows projecting from it, and now and then a small steeple not on the summit, but coming out of the roof itself—and these stories (upper) are all let out as the other apartments of the houses.
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