Travels in Europe and the East : a year in England, Scotland, . inion, and do not deny it;yet I must say, that while drinking is more pubhc,and more common here than at home, much less in-temperance is to be seen. We were at Ockenfels—but we found nothing;there to see, except the blackened walls of a ruinedcastle; and we did not stop to look at them, nor atthe town of Linz, which lies near the river, where oneof the Cologne archbishops once built that towernear the gate, to defend the town, and compel the tollfrom the sailors of the Rhine. These priestly rulersseem to have been tjTa
Travels in Europe and the East : a year in England, Scotland, . inion, and do not deny it;yet I must say, that while drinking is more pubhc,and more common here than at home, much less in-temperance is to be seen. We were at Ockenfels—but we found nothing;there to see, except the blackened walls of a ruinedcastle; and we did not stop to look at them, nor atthe town of Linz, which lies near the river, where oneof the Cologne archbishops once built that towernear the gate, to defend the town, and compel the tollfrom the sailors of the Rhine. These priestly rulersseem to have been tjTants for two worlds, and to havemade the most of their power while they had it. On the other side of the Rhine, and a mile or sofrom the water, is the spot wdiere tradition says thatConstantine saw the sign of the cross in the sky,when he was marching from Britain to Rome. Theglorious vision was hailed with enthusiastic joy, andthe promise held out to him, which was indeed ful-filled, that he should triumph over paganism, and es- 302 EUEOPE AND THE EAST. Noble HEAD OF CONSTANTDTE. tablish Christianity at Eome on its ruins. At Brohl^vast quantities of tuff-stone are found, wliicli is groundup for cement—hardening under water, and thereforein great demand, especially in Holland. This stonewas formerly used for coffins ; and as it absorbs themoistme of the body, the coffin is called a sarcoj>h-(tgus, or flesh-consumer, and this is the term nowgiven to all coffins made of stone. We are now entering the most majestic passage ofthe Rhine, where the shores approach each other, andon both sides the mountains rise so suddenly that wefeel oj^pressed with the sublimity of the is Andernach., and across the river, the ruinedcastle of I^rienriclistcin, to Avhich the peasants gavethe name of the Devils House, as they were com- ON THE RHINE. 303 C:Lsars liriilgo. Cublunz. pellecl to build it by their feudal tyrants. Emergingfrom this pass, we come upon a part of th
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