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  A. 
  C. 
  RAMSAY 
  ON 
  THE 
  PHYSICAL 
  HISTOEY 
  

  

  Fig. 
  5. 
  — 
  View 
  of 
  bank 
  near 
  Niederheimbach 
  

  

  1. 
  The 
  present 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  Rhine. 
  2. 
  The 
  cliffy 
  ground 
  of 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   gorge. 
  3. 
  An 
  old 
  river-plain. 
  4. 
  The 
  more 
  distant 
  hills 
  that 
  hounded 
  the 
  

   earlier 
  river-valley. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  6. 
  — 
  View 
  near 
  Wellmich. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  7. 
  — 
  View 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Rhine, 
  near 
  Salzig. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  7 
  represents 
  the 
  left 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Ehine 
  at 
  Salzig, 
  still 
  further 
  

   down. 
  The 
  lower 
  part 
  (No. 
  1) 
  is 
  cliffy, 
  above 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  the 
  

   same 
  kind 
  of 
  plain, 
  2, 
  gently 
  inclined 
  northward, 
  and 
  which 
  like 
  

   those 
  already 
  noticed 
  marks 
  an 
  old 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  about 
  400 
  feet 
  

   above 
  its 
  present 
  channel. 
  No. 
  3 
  marks 
  the 
  undulating 
  hills 
  

   beyond, 
  as 
  in 
  fig. 
  5. 
  ' 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  aspect 
  of 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  between 
  Coblenz 
  and 
  

   Bingen 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  rough 
  sketch 
  of 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  scenery, 
  

   looking 
  up 
  the 
  river 
  (fig. 
  8). 
  

  

  Fig. 
  8. 
  — 
  View, 
  looking 
  up 
  the 
  Rhine, 
  between 
  Coblenz 
  and 
  Bingen. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  diagram 
  high 
  terraced 
  plains 
  are 
  well 
  marked, 
  and 
  the 
  

   same 
  kind 
  of 
  form 
  is 
  occasionally 
  repeated 
  at 
  different 
  levels. 
  The 
  

  

  