CHAPTER XIX.

GERMAN WATERING-PLACES.—BINGEN ON THE RHINE.

A German Watering-place.—Land of Salt.—Salt Works.—Last of the Barons.— Homburg.—Kursaal.—Palace.—Gaming.—Kreusnach.—Spas.—Salt Springs.— Cure-house.—Kissingen.—Baths.—Cures.—Long Sledge-ride.—Princess of Mecklenburg.—Clerical Postman.—Whey-cure.—Grape-cure.—Rest.— Rheingraffenstein.—Ebernburg.—Relics of Reformers.—French Cannon Balls.—The Bingen of Poetry.—The Real Bingen.—Bishop Hatto’s Tower.— Maüse-thurme.—Southey.—Ehrenfels.—Rudesheimer Vineyards.—Wine-making.— Shallow Soil.—Johannisberg Vineyard.—The Rhine.—Mayence.—Printing.— Guttenberg’s Statue.—Cathedral

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