LINZ, a city of Austria, in the circle of Mühlviertel, and province of Upper Enns. It is the capital of the province and the circle, and stands on the right bank of the Danube. It is a well-built city, with three suburbs, a fine market-place, and a castle upon a hill which overlooks it. It contains three churches, three monasteries, and two nunneries, 1280 houses, and 18,500 inhabitants. There is an academical institution, with eighteen professors, directing studies in divinity, law, philosophy, surgery, and medicine, and a library of 22,000 volumes. It is a place of manufacturing industry, producing good woollen cloths, cassimeres, and carpets, as well as some cotton goods and hosiery. It carries on considerable trade by the Danube, both upwards and downwards, and has two fairs annually, which continue fourteen days. Long. 14. 11. 25. E. Lat. 48. 18. 54. N.