. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . t topsfor the exj)ress benefit of their long-legged friends; who,from their elevated and well-warmed abodes, look downsedately, and with a well-satisfied air upon their unfledgedbrethren below. Why the people here love storks, the people of Venicepigeons, and the people of Berne bears, I leave to moreindustrious inquirers to decide, satisfied only to noticethe fact that it is so, as each of these fancies adds oneto the list of local peculiarities so valuable in the recol-lections of a journey. The road from Basel to
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . t topsfor the exj)ress benefit of their long-legged friends; who,from their elevated and well-warmed abodes, look downsedately, and with a well-satisfied air upon their unfledgedbrethren below. Why the people here love storks, the people of Venicepigeons, and the people of Berne bears, I leave to moreindustrious inquirers to decide, satisfied only to noticethe fact that it is so, as each of these fancies adds oneto the list of local peculiarities so valuable in the recol-lections of a journey. The road from Basel to Baden is for the first half of the wayvery pretty ; we came in, unfortunately, for rather drenchingrain, and so lost all beyond the suggestion of some strikingviews. The towns through which we passed were not o muchinterest, though there were many picturesque and pleasant-looking subjects for the pencil. The most striking place onthe road was liheinfclden, a largish village (or perhapsI ought to say small town, as it rejoices in a Eath-haus 16 RHEINFELDEN-STKIX. [Chap. of some pretension), surrounded by very high walls, andentered ])y tall stone gate-towers, pierced with pointed arches, and surmounted hyupper stages of timber, vnihtiled roofs of quaint andeffective character; and hereand at Stein and Baden Inoticed that almost all thehouses were old and verylittle altered. I observedparticularly the old shop-windows of very simpledesign, closed with foldingshutters, and taking oneSH0P-1VIND0W, RHKixFELuEN. bact to old tlmcs most decidedly in their Eheinfelden the road, which so far has skirtedthe Khine rather closely, leaves it again for a few miles untilit touches it for the last time at the small town of Stein. From Stein we saw an imposing-looking church on theother side of the river at Sekingen. It has a great westernfront with two bulbous-topped steeples, and is of veryconsiderable length. The division between choir and nave ismarked by a delicate turret
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