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CHAPTER II. 



We now invite our readers to accompany us (in their car- 

 riages or on the map) in an excursion into the lowlands 

 of Cleves. For this purpose we leave the high road on 

 the heights, and cross over to Pfalzdorf, a colony esta- 

 blished in 1741, on a heath, by Protestant emigrants from 

 the Palatinate. Near this settlement, which industry and 

 skill have rendered flourishing, the house and grounds of 

 Herr Lobbes are situated, whose father is known as an 

 esteemed author on agriculture, in the practice of which 

 art he was (as his estate testifies) eminently successful. 

 The grounds were enclosed from the heath, and are now in 

 perfect heart and full cultivation. This farm (Vasenhof ), 

 like that of Herr von Busch, serves still as a model 

 farm for the neighbourhood, and the opinion of the 

 present proprietor on all subjects connected with rural 

 economy is not less respected. The house has less of 

 architectural ornament than that of Herr von Busch, and 

 is laid out more upon the plan of the larger farming esta- 

 blishments of the neighbourhood. The ground floor is 

 occupied by spacious kitchens and washhouscs, and when 

 we visited it the contents of the former apartments were 

 displayed at the windows, and on boards and stools in 

 the yard, where countless pots and stewpans, tin plates 

 and dishes, cullenders and braziers, announced by their 

 brilliancy that the periodical cleansing time for the 

 autumn, " the kirmess," was at hand. This locked-up 



