Harper's new monthly magazine . the left rose the long,windy ridge of the Weissenstein. Here andthere a rocky summit was crowned with theruins of an ancient robber-castle. But the scenewould have been frightful on canvas, it lay sobleak and rigid under the rainy sky. In twohours more I passed the boundary betweenFranconia and the Upper Palatinate. Here my Franconian excursion closes. Thenext day I reached Arnberg, on the Eastern Ba-varian Railway, having accomplished about ahundred miles on foot, to the manifest improve-ment of one knee at the expense of the I had, in addition, a sto
Harper's new monthly magazine . the left rose the long,windy ridge of the Weissenstein. Here andthere a rocky summit was crowned with theruins of an ancient robber-castle. But the scenewould have been frightful on canvas, it lay sobleak and rigid under the rainy sky. In twohours more I passed the boundary betweenFranconia and the Upper Palatinate. Here my Franconian excursion closes. Thenext day I reached Arnberg, on the Eastern Ba-varian Railway, having accomplished about ahundred miles on foot, to the manifest improve-ment of one knee at the expense of the I had, in addition, a store of cheerful andrefreshing experiences, and my confidence inthe Walking-Cure is so little shaken that Ipropose trying a second experiment in the Bo-hemian Forest—a region still less known to thetourist, if possible, than the Franconian Switz-erland. Whether I do this or not, will dependupon the news which I receive from home. Ifthe war continues in America, I shall not tarryin Europe. HISTOKY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. 159. THE SHANNON TAKING THE CHESAPEAKE INTO HALIFAX. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. * BY BENSON J. LOSSING. WHILE prosecuting the siege of Boston,during the summer and autumn of 1775,Washington caused five or six armed vessels tobe fitted out, and sent them to cruise as priva-teers on the New England coast, where Britishvessels had been depredating since the beginningof hostilities at Lexington and Concord, in Aprilof that year. On the 13th of October the Conti-nental Congress resolved to fit out two vessels ofwar, to cruise off the same coast, for the purposeof intercepting British transports. On the sameday Silas Deane of Connecticut, John Langdonof New Hampshire, and Christopher Gadsden ofSouth Carolina, were appointed a committee todirect naval affairs. Within two months after-ward the Congress had authorized the construc-tion and fitting out of fifteen more vessels ; andthe Marine Committee was enlarged so as tocomprise one delegate from each colony.
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