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laborious, frugal, active, and industrious. The inhabitant of the Odcnwald 

 is vigorous and energetic in bodily labor, good natured, tender hearted and 

 obliging, and possesses a strong sense of right. The people of Vogelberg 

 and Hinterland are a strong race of men, possessing a courageous dispo- 

 sition, great uprightness, honesty, and complaisance, and are as yet but 

 little ac({uainted with depraved manners and habits. On the other liand, 

 tlieir minds are not as highly cultivated as those of the people of the lower 

 districts, the Bergstrasse, the regions on the Rhine, and especially Rhenish 

 Hesse. The inhabitant of the Odenwald formerly wore a large comb, 

 going entirely round the hinder part of the head, a turned up triangular 

 hat, a green cowl, light blue waistcoat, woollen stockings with garters, and 

 shoes with large buckles. At present the green cowl is rarely seen, and 

 instead of this there is a long coat of dark blue cloth wdth a single row of 

 buttons. The women have retained their old fashions tolerably well, and 

 wear a dark blue cloth jacket, bordered with white ; a long frock of the same 

 material Avith numerous folds ; a cap of black calico, which is trimmed on both 

 sides and above with pearls ; white or blue woollen stockings, and shoes with 

 ribands. 



In pi. 2, Jigs. 16 and 17, are represented an Odenwald female, and also a 

 male peasant, from the district of Heppenheim, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 

 Tlie hiliahitants of RhenisJi Prussia differ very much from each other 

 in descent and manners ; in general, however, what Duller says of all the 

 people living along the Rhine, may also be said of them. " The Rhine," 

 sa^'s he, " exercises its powerful charm upon all the men who live near it 

 or indeed in the districts watered by it. How'ever different the employ- 

 ments may be (agriculture, especially the cultivation of the vine, and manu- 

 factures), influencing variously those who follow them ; hoAvever decided 

 the reliGcious feelins: in all (no matter Avhether of the Roman Catholic 

 or Lutheran Creed), the ever fresh enjojnnent of life is the Palladium 

 obtained by them from Old Rhine, father of wines ; a sanguine, ardent race, 

 with predominating activity of nerves, capable of every upward flight, quickly 

 influenced by love or hate, with admirable mental talents, though these have 

 been and are restrained in their development, in many districts of the land, 

 under long standing clerical dominion and education ; with w4t quick and 

 sharp as an arrow\ with iron-bound zeal for maintaining provincial indepen- 

 dence, full of art-creating energy, fond of singing, rich in tradition, hospitable 

 and sociable." 



The female reapers from Niederklee, in the district of Wetzlar, in 

 Rhenish Prussia ( pi. 2, figs. 18 and 19). have on wdiite caps with black 

 ribands, and black bodices ; and wear a green jacket fjistened with loops of 

 ribands over the bodice. The frocks are brown, the aprons white or blue, the 

 stockings black, the shoes fjistened with ribands. 



The women of the Aar valley (Jigs. 21 and 22) are distinguished by 

 their white caps, with three sides, inclosed also at the place of their junction 

 with brojxd lace. Both jackets and gowns have wide sleeves ; over the 

 breast is fastened a three-cornered handkerchief, and the hair is rolled up 

 behind. 



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