. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. ads, and sigh, It is the uneasy spirit of Bromsers daughter wrestlingwith the dreadful fate her father drove her to. Passing Rudesheim a fine view of the Rhine presents itself. Nearly oppositeto that town is the village of Kempten, seated at the foot of the steamer leaves the high banks behind, and in succession passes Geissenheim,—Johannisberg, with its fine vines, the property of Prince Metternich, — the villagesof Winkel, Mittelheim, and Oestrich, — Ellfeld, and its Gothic towers,—Walluff,the gate of the Rhe
. The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations. ads, and sigh, It is the uneasy spirit of Bromsers daughter wrestlingwith the dreadful fate her father drove her to. Passing Rudesheim a fine view of the Rhine presents itself. Nearly oppositeto that town is the village of Kempten, seated at the foot of the steamer leaves the high banks behind, and in succession passes Geissenheim,—Johannisberg, with its fine vines, the property of Prince Metternich, — the villagesof Winkel, Mittelheim, and Oestrich, — Ellfeld, and its Gothic towers,—Walluff,the gate of the Rheingau,—Budenheim with its ferry, — Scheirstein, theorchard of the Rheingau, — and Bieberich. Here the Duke of Nassau has a palaceand a garden, which the visitor is allowed to enjoy. Mayence is now rapidlyapproached, and the Traveller, as he nears that city of Gutemburg, has leisure toreflect upon the character of the scenery of the Rhine he has now left behind him,and to resolve what portions of it he will make further acquaintance with. 169 The Trouba-dours made May-ence their headquarters, andfrom its wallsthey issued tosing the deeds ofknighthood, andto spread far andwide the fame ofbeauty; and atMayence Gut-temburg firstcompleted the printing Frauen-lob, the most celebrated of theMinnesingers, has a tomb in thecathedral, to which his body was borne bythe women of Mayence. Guttemburg hasa statue in the market-place, raised to hismemory three centuries after his deathby the contributions of scholars in all parts of Traveller mustvisit these two me-morials of poetry /fSf«and learning, and in ||flOsearching them outwill see both the inte- ^H§rior and the exteriorof the ancient cathe-dral of the city, and cannot fail tobe struck by the mingled styles ofarchitecture it displays. He mayalso seek the stone of Drusus, and
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