File:Hamburg Steckelhörnfleet, by Edward Theodore Compton, 1912.jpg

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Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the town are a peculiar feature of this city.The great warehouses of the free harbour and theold-fashioned high-gabled houses interest us. Howdifferent is our impression when we land and reachthe Jungfernstieg. Here we mingle with an inter-national crowd like that on the boulevards of Parisor the Unter den Linden in Berlin. That great basinof water with its fleet of pleasure-boats, and itsmultitudes who, arrayed like Solomon in all hisglory, seem to have perpetual leisure and endlesscapability of eating ices or drinking coffee with rum,introduces us to fashionable Hamburg. Here arethe ereat tourist hotels, the arcades with thejewellers shops, and souvenirs set out to attract theeye and tempt the stranger. The new Town Hall, stately as a palace, theBourse, the Post-Office are near neighbours, speak-ing to us of the greatness of this mercantile city.The Church of St. Nicholas, designed by Sir GilbertScott, the Church of St. Peter, and many other HAMBURG—STECKELBORNFLETH,NICOLAI-KIRCHE
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ON THE SHORES OF THE BALTIC 217 ecclesiastical buildings, are worthy of the city,though they have little attraction for the stranger.No city in Europe except Constantinople hassuffered so much from the ravages of fire, and fewhave been so often desolated by the invader. TheParliament House, the Town Hall, and other publicbuildings have the image of the Phoenix set in aprominent place. Calamity never could dauntHamburg. There has always dwelt a spirit in hercitizens that no desolation could cast down and notribulation could appal. It is this spirit that hasmade Hamburg great. An excursion by steamer round Hamburgs water-ways affords an excellent opportunity of seeingthe inner and outer harbours, and the magnificentsuburban residences of her merchant princes. A gigantic statue of Bismarck, that seems theembodiment of forces which no obstacle could turnaside from the goal, has been erected by a citywhose spirit resembled his own. That statueseems to invite us to turn aside and see atFrie

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