. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. TH NOTES OF REFERENCE. On the evening before lie leaves Cologne, the Traveller will do well to scanwell the Map of that portion of the Rhine which is best worth knowing. He canthen arrange his plans, and decide at what points he will stop. Bonn should be thefirst, in order that he may visit the environs of that city ; Coblentz the next, fromwhence he may, if he has time and inclination, make a voyage up the Moselle :above Coblentz, almost every spot at which the steamer touches is worthexploring, and certainly those who make t
. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. TH NOTES OF REFERENCE. On the evening before lie leaves Cologne, the Traveller will do well to scanwell the Map of that portion of the Rhine which is best worth knowing. He canthen arrange his plans, and decide at what points he will stop. Bonn should be thefirst, in order that he may visit the environs of that city ; Coblentz the next, fromwhence he may, if he has time and inclination, make a voyage up the Moselle :above Coblentz, almost every spot at which the steamer touches is worthexploring, and certainly those who make the Rhine the object of their tour shouldsee it thoroughly. For this purpose it is perhaps the best plan to pass up theriver from Bonn to Mayence in the steamers, thus viewing the scenery from thedeck, and on returning to forsake the vessel between Bingen and Coblentz, andtravel along the banks. 124 THE RHINE BOOK. MAP OF THE RHINE, FROM COLOGNE TO MAYENCE. COLOGNE ied:Zimdorf7)b:ZunJ/)rf Craw R Endenich 0 jg Q^f^Krew bcsiy +Popprtsdorfo Kessenich ° /Hachkrewz (r. PlittersdcR GodzslergGodejbergJlwufsoi Konigswinter \WoVmiburg c» T-Dmohenfela \ Lovenburq SchewernJnkelJleisterErpel Krtjfp mLLlilZ Mehlem Ob era/inter Apolt^arisbvrg, N. B. At all places marked S. stations of the Cologne and Dus-seldorf steamers. Cologne (Colonia Agrippina),() the largest town of the Prus-sian Rhenish provinces, is of Romanorigin. It has 72,000 inhabitants,and has lately been made a fortress :its circumference is five Englishmiles. Curiosities. — The Cathedral, be-gun in 1247, continued until restoration commenced in 1827,and the foundation stone of the futureworks laid in 1842. — The JesuitsChurch and Library. — St. Ursula(bones of the 11,000 virgins).—St. G-ereon. — The Apostles- Church.— St. Peters Church. — St. Mary inthe Capitol. — The Giirzenich.—TheTown Hall.—The Walraff Museum(pictures, antiquities).—The modernbuildings are, the Casino, the Go-vernme
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