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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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enery becomesnoble and exciting. A sriarantic rock, over threehundred feet wide, impedes the course of the river,and over it the waters leap and eddy and foam, and then flow calmlyon amid green woods, and near villages whose windows glitter inthe sun. We rode through the so-called Forest towns. High beeches stoodon each side of the river, and the waters here were as blue as the sky,and so clear we could see the gravelly bed. The river hastened to Basle. We hastened on like the river.Basle is the first town of importance on the Rhine. Here we obtained a fine view of the Black Forest range of hills,and beheld the distant summits of the Jura and the Vosges. Basle was a Roman fortified. town in the days of the struggles ofRome with the Barbarians. It is gray with history, — with the bat-tles of Church and State, battles of words, and battles of deeds andblood. But the sunlight was poured upon it, and the Rhine flowedquietly by, and the palaces of peace and prosperity rose on every hand,
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A VILLAGE IN THE BLACK FOREST. NIGHT SECOND. 95 as though the passions of men had never been excited there, or th^e soilreddened with blood. We took a principal street on our arrival, and followed theuncertain way. It led to the cathedral, on high ground. At the en- 88111

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