35(5 EUnOPEAK KIVBRS. 
it at Schaffhausen, which is much 
count of the beauty and singularity 
The rapidity of the river having carried 
ral Slone bridges, thi 
„ „ 
one, constructed ot 
•-fill*- ^ 
luavmg iioweu wesi-.vum lu 
a direction due north, along ihe eastern 
till it receives the Maine, a little below ‘ > ,i( 
a single arch, has been so well contris'ed, t*’ 
fectly secure. Near this bridge is a fine waiet' 
Having flowed westward to Bash’, d 
proceeding thence north-westward, enters 
Lw:?ra, .... 
lands. its course exceed.5 seven hundred ))• j 
its banks the cities of Men tv,, Coblentz, Co°= pjeCy 
dorf, Wesel, and Cleves, are situated. ^Vf its 
circles of the Upper and Lower Rhine. de'-f!'V 
through Alsace it frequently causes dreadtu ^ f 
not only in winter, but in the ^summer, ^ 
melts on the Alps. Its inundations, in 
fields, cover them with sand ; and the 
torrents, which are very frequent, occasjont ; J 
situation of the islands placed witliin ils bed. p 
I' ^ . flit**’ 
One of the singularities of the Rhine (j, 
of gold are found in the sand which the -c® 
rif 
fall, wash from the Alps, and bring into it. jg,i 5 & 
below Basle that the sand contains this P ^ is ^ f 
which, in autumn and winter, when the ^ i 
lowest, is drawn out with the sand, and e- 
peated washings. Its particles are ■‘seldon’ bf x 
grain of millet seed 5 but the gold is ''eU,"''® gi,iii?;- ,,r 
grain 01 iuukascuuj uuh. h.iv. ‘'f 
It is so scarce, however, that the city of ,[ o> 
It IS so scarce, uuwcviri, t-iia*. M 
has the privilege of collecting Jt for the 
* IJ., ii*' 
four miles, scarcely collects five ounces 
river also contains many crystals, and part' 
which take a beautiful polish : these are we ^ 
the name of Rhine pebbles. . “ 
At Utrecht the Rhine 
the Old and New 
throughout its length. One of tliese braiici*'" ,, 5 sUtOf. 1 ( 
the sands below Leyden, and llie nfius VV 
' - Maine. 
.lime divides into two 1> ‘ js ‘ jfPi 
Rhine, both of which . 5 
One of tliese branch'^ . . 
name of the Lech, falls into the Ma 
, 1 a* 
grand and important river, after so jts 
course, terminate obscurely, without pout 
;iog 
course, leniiuiavc -/sail* 
waters into the common receptacle, the occ 
