13

II.--THE UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL, 28

III.--THE GALLERIES, 44

IV.--TRAVELLING ON THE RHINE, 60

V.--THE SIEBEN GEBIRGEN, 77

VI.--ROLAND'S TOWER, 95

VII.--ROLLO'S LIST, 107

VIII.--A SABBATH ON THE RHINE, 117

IX.--EHRENBREITSTEIN, 135

X.--ROLLO'S LETTER, 141

XI.--THE RAFT, 146

XII.--DINNER, 168

XIII.--BINGEN, 185

XIV.--THE RUIN IN THE GARDEN, 194

XV.--RHEINSTEIN, 202

CONCLUSION. 219

ENGRAVINGS.

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ROLANDSECK AND DRACHENFELS. FRONTISPIECE.

THE RIDE, 12

COLOGNE IN SIGHT, 19

THE BEGGAR, 31

MINNIE'S ROGUERY, 51

TOWING, 63

DONKEY RIDING, 75

THE STUDENTS, 114

THE NUN, 122

THE EMIGRANTS, 132

ROLLO ON THE RAFT, 163

DINNER ON THE RHINE, 173

MINNIE, 190

THE NIGHT JOURNEY, 218

[Illustration: RIDE.--See chap. 15.]

ROLLO ON THE RHINE.

CHAPTER I.

THE APPROACH TO COLOGNE.

If a man were to be raised in a balloon high enough above the continent
of Europe to survey the whole of it at one view, he would see the land
gradually rising from the borders of the sea on every side, towards a
portion near the centre, where he would behold a vast region of
mountainous country, with torrents of water running down the slopes and
through the valleys of it, while the summits were tipped with perpetual
snow. The central part of this mass of mountains forms what is called
Switzerland, the eastern part is the Tyrol, and the western Savoy. But
th