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“The scenery on the Rhine, with its castellated heights, has been 
the frequent theme of remark and admiration by European travellers. 
Yet it is doubtful whether it is not equalled in actual beauty of land- 
Scape, by that of some of the streams that water this region of the far 
west. It is certain that though the rock formations essentially differ, 
nature has here fashioned, on an extensive scale, and in advance of all 
civilization, remarkable and curious counterparts to the artificial land- 
Scape which has given celebrity to that part of the European continent. 
“The features of the scenery are not, indeed, of the lofiiest and most 
impressive character. There are no elevated peaks, rising in majestic 
grandeur; no mountain torrents, shrouded in foam and chafing in their 
rocky channels; no deep and narrow valleys hemmed in on every side 
ges giving exit to pent up waters; no contorted and twisted strata, 
affurding evidence of gigantic uplift and violent throes. But the fea- 
tures of the scene, though less grand and bold than those of mountain- 
ous regions, are yet impressive and strongly marked. We find the 
luxuriant sward, clothing the hill slope even down to the water’s edge. 
Crosses it, broken up into a small romantic cascade. have clumps 
of trees, disposed with an effect that might baffle the landscape gard- 
ener g the grassy height, now dotting the green slope with 
ock 
summits around. This latter feature especialiy aids the delusion; for 
the peculiar aspect of the exposed limestone and its manner of weath- 
ering cause it to assume a resemblance somewhat fantastic indeed, but 
yet wonderfully close and faithful, to the dilapidated wall, with its crown- 
ing parapet and its projecting butresses and its flanking towers, and 
even the lesser details that mark the fortress of olden time. 
‘* Bold exposures of rock, with a grassy bank beneath, such as are 
represented by the sketches, are, for the most part, only on the south 
and western sides of the hills; the northern and eastern declivities 
are more rounded and most generally overgrown with trees and 
Shrubberv,” LO i 
2. The races of Man and their Geographical Distribution ; by 
Cuartes Picxertnc, M.D., of the Scientific Corps of the Exploring 
