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From Halberstadt we went on to Quedlinburg, a city still 
partly surrounded by its medizval walls and rich in historic 
memories. The birthplace of Klopstock, the poet (1774) ; of 
Carl Ritter, the great geographer ; Quedlinburg has in its Abbey 
a relic of almost unique interest, both historically and archi- 
tecturally. | Here, too, the Rathaus has a statue of Roland at 
the door, and inside on the first floor, is a wooden cage about 
7 feet by 4 feet, in which Albert, the robber Count of Regenstein, 
was imprisoned for nearly 18 months, A.D. 1336-8 
Leaving Quedlinburg early on Saturday morning, an excur- 
sion was made to Thale, from where the Bodetal was ascended 
to Treseburg. This valley is one of the most beautiful things 
in the Harz Mountains, and its various charming views 
were well represented in the lantern slides _ exhibited. 
Returning to Quedlinburg for the night, Blankenberg was 
reached by a very pleasant drive in the early morning, and 
there a halt was made for the day, which was not only Sunday, 
but also the hottest of the whole tour. 
Riibeland with its wonderful caves was the next point of 
interest ; and then Elbingerode, 1500 ft. above the sea, a 
quiet little village of miners and cattle breeders. Here they 
are on the borders of the forest which clothes the lower slopes 
of the Brocken, and their drive on the next morning through 
the pine-woods to the station ‘‘ Drei-Annen Hohne,” was very 
enjoyable. There they took the train, and in an hour and 
a half were on the summit of the Brocken. The weather was 
hazy and the horizon indistinct, so that the view was dis- 
appointing ; but the full moon at night lent a weird beauty 
to the scene of the Walpurgis Nacht. Most of the excur- 
sionists who had come up with them in the train, as well as 
those who had driven over from Harzburg and Ilsenburg 
had returned, very few staying the night. The next morning 
the rain came down in torrents and all hope of walking down, 
via the Hohe Klippen and Steinerne Rennen, had to be aban- 
doned, so they took the train to Wernigerode, whither their 
baggage had preceded them. A very interesting old town, with 
a fine castle, a choice museum of Harz minerals, and other 
notabilia ; here were made the slides which illustrated this 
lecture. The next evening found them at Goslar, the true capital 
oi the Harz, and one of the oldest, most interesting towns in 
Germany. The Kaiserhaus alone would be worth a journey to 
Goslar to see, and half a score of other old buildings—the Kaiser- 
worth, the Rathaus with its museum, the Gildehaus, birth- 
place of Maurice of Saxony—the grave of whose mother, the 
fair and frail Countess Augusta von K6nigsmark, we had seen 
at Quedlinburg Abbey—with others no less interesting, form 

