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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Ant-werp : Calvaert (Denis), born 1565, died 1619.— Crayer (Gaspard de), died in 1669.—Rubens(Peter Paul), whose parents were both fromAntwerp, but who was born at Cologne,June 29. 1577, and died May 30. 1640, atAntwerp, where he had always resided.—Jor-diens (James), born 1593, died 1678. — Teniers(David), born 1610, died 1694. — Vandyke (Antony), the most celebrated of Rubensspupils, and often equal to his master; born 1599, died 1641 Gramaye (John Baptist), the historiographer of the Low-Countries, died1635.— Engelgrave (Henry), a learned jesuit,born 1610. — Edelinck (Gerard), a celebratedengraver, born 1649, died 1707. — Matsys(Quentin), called the Farrier of Antwerp, onaccount of his first profession of a farrier orblacksmith, died at Antwerp in 1529, aged 79.— Sadeler (Giles), an engraver, born 1570, died1629 Snyders (Francis), a painter and en-graver, celebrated for his pictures of fruits,and particularly of animals, born 1587, died1657. BELGIAN RAILROADS. 27
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THE RAILROAD TRIP. BRUSSELS. A MORNING AT WATERLOO. When the Traveller turns his back upon the fortifications of Antwerp on hisway to the train, he quickly discovers the peculiarities of the Belgian railroads.The low fares, the signals by trumpet instead of bell, the military look of theservants, the smallness and slightness of the carriages, remind him that he is notin England. He soon finds, too, how admirably adapted Belgium is for railroads,its level surface superseding all necessity for cuttings, tunnels or viaducts; whilstthe works having been taken up by the government with a view to the generalimprovement of the country, instead of by a private company for the purposes ofindividual profit, the lines have all been laid down on a wise and uniform system,and the host of expenses which clog the first movements of a projected railroad inEngland have been saved.* No scheming attorneys, no voracious counsel, no * The Acts of Parliament for the London and Birmingham Railway cost 72,00

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