An Autumn Near the Rhine, Or Sketches of Courts, Society, Scenery, &c. in Some of the German States Bordering on the Rhine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Autumn Near the Rhine, or Sketches of Courts, Society, Scenery, &C. In Some of the German States Bordering on the Rhine

ON emerging from the mountainous scenes, through which the Route Na poleon had followed the brink of the Rhine as far as Bingen, we entered the vast rich plain, here and there diversified by undu lating hills, which stretches nearly as far as the eye can reach. As I shall probably te visit the banks of the Rhine on my return, you shall then hear some description of their beauties, which may comparatively be said to cease at Bingen. Our road now lay through cheerful, stiff, avenues of fruit trees The hills of the Bhingan rose in a fine amphitheatre on the opposite side of the river; and the ripe harvest, which the peasants were just beginning to cut, gave an air of fertility to the flat 'uninclosed a.

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