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No ong is heard, save when afar complains 
The croaking frog, sole in the cheers vale. 
The wild bird revels in the lon 
And sadly creaking turns the oe ial wheel 
The joyous cries of r ere there are still, 
Nor proud stream bears the richly freight barque. 
wn horrid rocks the eave nt’s dashi spray 
Falls, and is lost ’mid the surr th gloom.” 
One of the most striking valleys reaching from Siickingen, near 
Bale, towards the Feldberg, is worthy 0 special notice. 
os t 1} hour’s walk from the first-named place, at the foot 
A large amphitheatre opens, the wuile of this charac- 
Bethe ce centre filled with huge masses of rock in the wildest con- 
| ery 
) gm rama, se not the least, the habitations of men 
a chien os ch 
ith a few ars hat one of the natural beauties of the 
» = Orest I will conclude this rather disjointed paper, 
. are, as might be Pass ari in a mountainous district 
ng so many kinds of rock, caverns of varioas sorts. 
pl natural alassite cavern called the a er 7 
7,9 note. Through a passage of some three feet wide an 
high the traveller agents into a lofty hall, full 
f the left, a 
: t rush : ‘cate with the Rhine 
Or op, es, supposed to communica 
* Sound. “sa the roof is studded with ponderous tal 
sses and steps leading to other vaults, a 
oF les beautifal, in one of which is a ‘motionless 
* Translation from Schutt. 
