[50] Markdorf.
[51] This is probably meant for Buchhorn, a free imperial city. In 1810 it came under the rule of Würtemberg and received the name of Friedrickshafen.
[52] Lindau.
[53] A silver coin worth about eighteen pence in English money.
[54] The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster, one of the earliest guide-books.
[55] “Il me semble que je n’ay rencontré guères de manières qui ne vaillent les nostres,” Essais, iii. 9. Montaigne’s liking for Germany and German ways is very marked. It may perhaps be explained by a passage in Essais, i. 25: “Mon père me donna en charge à un Allemand, qui depuis est mort fameux medecin en France.”
[56] A gold coin of the time of Louis XI.
[57] Wangen.
[58] Isny.
[59] Now in the museum at Augsburg. The inscription is in Mommsen, Corpus Insc., iii. n. 5987:—
IMP. CAESAR.
I. SEPTIMIUS. SEVERUS. PIUS.
PERTINAX. AUG. ARABIC.
ADIAB. PARTHICUS. MAXIMUS.
PONTIF. MX. TRB. POT. VIII.
IMP. XII. COS. II. P. P. PROCOS. ET
IMP. CAESAR. MRCUS. AUREL.
ANTONINUS. PIUS. AUG. TRB.
POT. IIII. PROCOS. ET.
A. CAMB. M. P.
XI.