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Title: Rollo on the Rhine

Author: Jacob Abbott

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Language: English

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ROLLO ON THE RHINE,

by

JACOB ABBOTT.

Boston:
Published By Taggard And Thompson
M DCCC LXIV.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
Jacob Abbott,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts

Stereotyped at the
Boston Stereotype Foundry

Riverside, Cambridge: Printed by H. O. Houghton

[Illustration: ROLANDSECK AND DRACHENFELS.--See chap. 5]

[Illustration]

ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE.

ORDER OF THE VOLUMES

ROLLO ON THE ATLANTIC.
ROLLO IN PARIS.
ROLLO IN SWITZERLAND.
ROLLO IN LONDON.
ROLLO ON THE RHINE.
ROLLO IN SCOTLAND.
ROLLO IN GENEVA.
ROLLO IN HOLLAND.
ROLLO IN NAPLES.
ROLLO IN ROME.

PRINCIPAL PERSONS OF THE STORY.

ROLLO; twelve years of age.

MR. and MRS. HOLIDAY; Rollo's father and mother, travelling in
Europe.

THANNY; Rollo's younger brother.

JANE; Rollo's cousin, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Holiday.

MR. GEORGE; a young gentleman, Rollo's uncle.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--THE APPROACH TO COLOGNE,