. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . e soon after proving faithless, the two brothers henceforth livedtogether in retirement at Liebenstein, leaving Sternberg to its fate. Near St. Goar, on the left bank, is the precipitous rock of Lurlei orLorleifelsen, with its echo repeating fifteen times, and its well-known legendon which Wallaces opera Lurline is founded. 48 ^^^ The Rhi7ie. 1 Farther up the river, in mid-stream, are the rocks called the Seven \ IS said that these rugged masses were once seven fair maide
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . e soon after proving faithless, the two brothers henceforth livedtogether in retirement at Liebenstein, leaving Sternberg to its fate. Near St. Goar, on the left bank, is the precipitous rock of Lurlei orLorleifelsen, with its echo repeating fifteen times, and its well-known legendon which Wallaces opera Lurline is founded. 48 ^^^ The Rhi7ie. 1 Farther up the river, in mid-stream, are the rocks called the Seven \ IS said that these rugged masses were once seven fair maidens, condemnedby the river-god for their prudery to this unenviable destiny. Passing Assmannshausen on the left, celebrated for its fine red wine, pro-duced from vines cultivated in the neighbourhood, in the most barren andimpossible places on the rocky sides of the mountain, we see on the rightan island, with a ruin called the Mausethurm (Mice Tower), connected withwhich is the following strange tradition so beautifully given by Southey : At a time when the inhabitants of Alayence were suffering from a severe. bingekbkuck:. famine, their wicked and covetous old Bishop, Hatto, caused a number ofpoor people to be burned in a barn, accumulated large stores of grain inthis tower, and when pressed for assistance by the starving inhabitants, tookrefuge there with his immediate attendants. Tradition adds that the mice,having been driven by hunger from their usual haunts, effected the passageof the river, and being attracted to the tower by the presence of the grain,succeeded in forcing an entrance, and devoured not only the grain itself,but every living being in the tower, including the wicked old Bishop. Riidesheim lies on the left bank, and opposite is Bingerbriick, with itsbeautiful scenery, a view of which we annex, as also Johannisberg, with itscastle belonging to Prince Metternich, and its sixty-five acres ot vineyard,producing perhaps the most highly jirized wine m the world ;
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