. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . E emerged from the majestic circle of the SevenMountains, the most beautiful part of the Rhinescenery, and broad plains again met our river ran smoothly, the Middle Rhine waspassed, Bonn was in view, and there we dismissedour boatman. We stopped in Bonn only a short time. We went to the Mar-ket-place and walked past the University, which was once a palace. We took the train at Bonn for Cologne, in order to pass rapidlyover a part of the Rhine scenery said to be comparatively uninter-esting. Holy Cologne ! The Rome of the
. Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic . E emerged from the majestic circle of the SevenMountains, the most beautiful part of the Rhinescenery, and broad plains again met our river ran smoothly, the Middle Rhine waspassed, Bonn was in view, and there we dismissedour boatman. We stopped in Bonn only a short time. We went to the Mar-ket-place and walked past the University, which was once a palace. We took the train at Bonn for Cologne, in order to pass rapidlyover a part of the Rhine scenery said to be comparatively uninter-esting. Holy Cologne ! The Rome of the Northern Empire! The ecclesiastical capitalof the ancient German church ! The unfinished cathedral towers over the city like a mountain. Unfinished ? Everything has a legend here, and a marvellous one,and the unfinished cathedral stands like a witness to such a tale. Above Cologne the river runs broad, a blue-green mirror amiddumpy willows and lanky poplars, and the windmills on its banksthrow their arms about like giants at play. The steamers swarm in. CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE. COLOGNE. 187 the bright waters; at evening their lights are like long bridge of boats opens; a steamer passes, followed by a crowdof boats ; it closes, and the waiting crowd upon it hurry over. TheRhine at night here presents a most animated scene. The river seems alive, but the city looks dead. There is a fadedglory on everything. There are steeples and steeples, towers andtowers. Cologne is said to have had at one time as many churches asthere are days in the year. But life has gone out of them ; they arelike deserted houses. They belonged to the religious period of evolu-tion, and are like geologic formations now, — history that has had itsday, and left its tombstone. Cologne is as old as Rome in her glory, — older than the Chris-tian era. She was the second great city of the Church in the MiddleAges. Cologne is full of wonders in stone and marble, wonders inlegend and story as w
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