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Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s occupied by the Grand Duchess ;one wing is appropriated for the Museum, and 174 THE RHINE EOOK. another, which contained the Theatre, wasburnt by the Austrians, and is still in ruins.The gardens of the Palace overlook the Rhine,and form a delightful promenade. In the environs are some private gardenssituated on the banks of the river Neckar,which add much to the beauty of Mannheim. The Theatre is good, and its orchestra is notto be surpassed in this part of Germany. The church of the Jesuits is generallyvisited. The gardens Schwetzingen are about 9 miles from Mannheim, and can be visited on the way to Heidelburg. There are diligences daily to Carlsruhe, Heidelburg, Frankfurt, and Mayence. Mannheim is remarkable for its cleanliness, and contains about 20,630 inhabitants. In summer this city presents a bustling appearance; from the immense number of travellers whoI disembark here from the steam-packets; mostI of them remain a day or two to view the town, the gardens, and the environs.
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WIESBADEN. 175 An English surgeon, Mr. Edwin Lee, inhis medical work, affords us the best accountof Wiesbaden, and also an analysis of itswaters. Wiesbaden, the capital of the Duchy ofNassau, is about an hours drive from Mayence,and three from Frankfurt. It lies in a valley,encircled by low hills ; behind which, on thenorth and north-west, rises the range of theTaunus Mountains, whose dark foliage formsan agreeable contrast to the brighter green ofthe meadows and the white buildings of thetown. Within the last few years several newstreets have been erected: the Wilhelmstrasse,fronting the promenades, would bear a com-parison with some of the finest streets inEurope; it consists principally of lodging-houses elegantly fitted up. The Kurhaus derVier Jahrzeiten, or principal hotel and bathing-house, forms one corner of this street and oneside of a square; on the opposite side of whichstands the handsome new theatre, where theMayence company performs during the season.Across the road lies

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