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ground," which is everywhere divided from the 

 park by a rail fence to keep off the grazing cat- 

 tle as well as to distinguish quite clearly the 

 limit which should divide art and nature, and 

 proceed under a grove of foreign woods and 

 bushes, and then gradually descend into the val- 

 ley, getting a near view of the castle from the 

 west, turn left to the old castle, passing the Platz 

 with the equestrian statue of the Nibelungen 

 hero, and arrive, turning sharply east, at a bridge, 

 from one side of which both castles are seen mir- 

 rored in the water, and (Plate XX) from the 

 other (-u) a waterfall, made of colossal granite 

 stones, of which plenty are to be found in this 

 region. The waterfall was constructed as I have 

 indicated, so that it by no means is intended to 

 represent a bed of rock, which is not natural in 

 these parts, but rather to look as if the river in 

 some flood had rolled the stones here, and, find- 

 ing an obstruction, had merely heaped them up 

 to an unusual extent. Therefore, several blocks 

 are scattered in front and as many behind the 

 waterfall, to bring about the natural effect, but 

 the sides are clothed with overhanging bushes 

 and water plants, and herbaceous plants and pots 

 of flowers, packed in moss, are scattered between 

 the stones so that they seem to grow out of the 

 rockery and enhance the rich and natural effect 

 of the whole. A view of it has already been 

 given. 



Behind the waterfall we leave the " pleasure- 

 ground " and continue on the meadow level of 



