Persons interested in military matters will be disposed to visit the Arsenal of a fortress so important as Strasburg: it contains fire-arms for 155,000 men, and 952 pieces of cannon, 412 of which are required for the defence of the town and the citadels. There is a cannon foundry here, and one of the largest depôts of artillery in France. By means of large sluices, constructed in the time of Louis XV. by Vauban, at the spot where the Ill enters the town, the country around Strasburg, between the Rhine and the Ill, can be laid under water, and the city rendered unapproachable by an army, and almost impregnable.

The Seminaire is a huge and handsome edifice, close to the cathedral: it was originally the bishop's palace.

There is a good provincial Theatre here, near the square called Broglie, from a governor of Alsace of that name: a very splendid Synagogue was erected, in 1834, by the Jews. It is curious to contrast the present with the former condition of that people in this city. Nowhere did they suffer more cruel or tyrannical persecutions. The street called Brand Strasse (Firestreet), was so named because, on the spot where the Prefecture now stands, a bonfire was made, in 1348, to burn the Hebrews; and 2000 of that devoted race, accused of having poisoned the wells and fountains, and thus caused the plague which desolated the city about this time, were consumed in the flames. From henceforth no Jew was allowed to live within the walls; and the summons of a horn, blown every evening from the Minster tower, compelled them all to depart.

The body of General Kleber (a native of Strasburg), originally interred in the Minster, has been removed to a vault in the centre of the Place d'Armes (Paradeplatz), and a monument has been erected over it.

Strasburg is famous for its Pâtés de foies gras, made of the livers of geese, which are enlarged to an unnatural size by the cruel process of shutting the birds up singly in coops too narrow to allow them to turn, and stuffing them twice a day with maize.

They are generally kept in a dark cellar, and the winter is the season for fattening them, coolness being essential. There is such a coop in almost every house in the town. Sulphur or garlick is steeped in the water given to the birds to increase their appetite. Instances are known of a goose's liver which had attained the weight of 2 or even 3 lbs. Hummel, No. 9. Rue des Serruriers, is said to make good pâtés.

The gates of Strasburg are shut at 10 o'clock, after which neither ingress nor egress is allowed.

The principal Promenade is the Ruprechtsau, an extensive space, laid out in walks and gardens, beyond the walls.

two opposite extremities of a continent; and, while part find their way to the German Ocean, others, which reached the ground within a few feet of them, take an opposite course, and fall into

the Black Sea.

The

2 Donaueschingen.-Inns: Schütze; Poste (Falke). This town is the chief place of the small Landgraviate of Baar, and contains 3053 inhab. principal building is the Palace of the mediatised prince of Fürstenberg, a plain modern edifice.

In a corner of the garden, and between the walls of the palace and the church, is a round basin filled with clear sparkling water, which may be seen bubbling up from the bottom. Its waters, running out of the basin, are conducted for about 50 yards, in a subterranean channel, into the Briegach, which from that point receives the name of the Danube. This little basin, under the castle window, goes by the name of the Source of the Danube. The real origin of that river seems to have been involved in a portion of the same mystery which conceals the source of the Nile. The claims which the basin in the courtyard has to be considered the source that the name of Danube is not given to the river until the waters of this little rill are received into it, and that the two upper streams, the Brege, whose fountain-head is at the solitary chapel of St. Martin, about 5 m. N. W. of the village of Furtwangen, and 25 m. from Donaueschingen, and the Briegach, rising near the convent of St. George, 20 miles off, in spite of the previous length of their course, are both liable to be exhausted by drought, until supplied by the rill from the castle garden of Prince Fürstenberg.

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The whole country round Donaueschingen may be compared to a wet sponge, so abundant and numerous are the sources of water in springs, rills, ponds, and marshes, all of which go to swell the tide of the Danube. About a mile out of Donaueschingen, the village of Hülfingen, the road crosses the Brege, which in regard to its previous length may be looked on as the main stream of the Danube; the

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Briegach falls into it about a mile lower down.

Eilwagen, in 9 hours, direct from Donaueschingen to Constance by Geisingen (1 Germ. m). Engen (2), where Moreau beat the Austrians, in 1800, with a loss of 7000 men on either side. The height of Howenhowen, an extinct volcano, once more vomited forth flames; but in spite of the tremendous fire of the Austrian artillery planted on it, it was carried by the French. Radolfzell (3). Constance (21).

In the midst of the bare open coun try, interspersed with tufts of furze traversed on the way to Schaffhausen, a ruined castle is seen on a hill, with a village on the slope beneath it, at a little distance to the left of the road. This is Fürstenberg, which gives its name to the principality now mediatised. Riedböhringen is a small village. 2 Blumberg; a desolate-looking post-house.

This stage is almost entirely occupied in the ascent and descent of a steep hill called the Rande. The view, from the top, near a wooden crucifix, is charming. On the left are seen 3 singular mountains, which from their shape, may at once be known as extinct volcanoes: they are called Hohen Stoffeln, Hohen Krähe, and Hohentwiel. Further on, in the distance, a wide expanse of the Lake of Constance, with the towers of Constance itself, backed by the snowy mountains of Switzerland, rises to view. Half way down the hill is a row of small houses; these are the Douane of the Baden frontier (§ 32.). Immediately beyond them the traveller reaches Swiss ground, and the road passes through a little valley, completely Swiss in aspect as well as situation to

3 SCHAFFHAUSEN (see HANDBOOK FOR SWITZERLAND). Inns: Weber's, at the falls, nearly 2 miles from the town; Couronne, good, and not expensive.

There is a post-house in Schaffhausen, which supplies horses on the road to Constance. The relays are

1 Randegg. Here is the Baden custom-house.

Near Singen (Inn poor and extortionate) you pass at the foot of Hohentwiel, The castle is now dismantled. The lofty rock upon which it stands gives it the appearance of an Indian hill fort.

2 Radolfzell (Post-house, a very good inn). A desolate town, situated at the extremity of the branch of the Lake of Constance, called Unter See, with a fine church, in the true German Gothic style. "In the broad part of the Rhine, where it is still rather a lake than a river, is the Isle of Reichenau, anciently famed for a monastery, founded by one of the successors of Charlemagne, of which the Church (partly Romanesque) and Treasury remain. In the Treasury are to be seen, the shrine of St. Fortunata, an ivory ciborium, a cope, a crozier, and a missal of the 10th century."-F. S.

The scenery of the road which runs along the left bank of the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Constance is more pleasing than the above road, but there are no post horses on it.

Petershausen, on the rt. bank of the Rhine opposite Constance, was originally a free abbey of the empire.

The Rhine here, suddenly contracted from a lake to a river, is crossed by a wooden bridge into

2 CONSTANCE. Inns: Brochet (Hecht), very good, looking over the lake, partly new, with very attentive landlord, Mr. Keppler, who is an accomplished fisherman, and has excellent rods, nets, punts, and all appliances for fishing, trolling, &c., which he lets out on moderate terms. He has also very extensive water privilege in and around Constance. Hotel Delisle, outside the territory of the Customs League; Post; (Goldner Adler, Aigle d'Or) good.

Constance, a decayed city, of 7200 inhab., instead of 40,000, which it once possessed, is remarkable for its antiquity, since its streets and many of its buildings remain unaltered since the 15th century. Although situated on the 1. or Swiss bank of the Rhine, it belongs to Baden. It is connected

with the opposite shore by a long wooden covered bridge, and occupies a projecting angle of ground at the W. extremity of the Bodensee, or lake of Constance; its agreeable position and interesting historical associations make amends for the want of life perceptible within its venerable walls. It has of late, however, revived considerably; the government have formed, at a large expense, a Port on the lake, which facilitates the navigation, while it is an ornament to the town.

The

The Minster is a handsome Gothic structure, begun 1052, with fine openwork turrets in the W. end; the doors of the main W. portal between the two towers are of oak, curiously carved in compartments, with a representation of the Passion of our Lord, executed in 1470 by one Simon Bainder. nave is supported by sixteen pillars, each of a single block, 18 ft. high, and dates from the 13th century; it is flanked by circular arches in the Romanesque style, and is very wide; the aisles are pointed. The spot where the "Archheretic Huss" stood, as sentence of death by burning was pronounced on him by his unrighteous judges, is still pointed out as a stone in the centre of the nave near the pulpit. Robert Hallam, Bishop of Salisbury, who presided over the English deputation to the council, is buried here, in front of the high altar, under a tomb, which is very remarkable, as being of English brass; which is fully proved by the workmanship. It was probably sent over from England by his executors. He wears the Order of the Garter. The carved woodwork of the stalls of the choir is very fine. In the N. transept is a representation of the death of the Virgin in figures of life size. The crypt is of the 10th or 11th cent. Two sides of the ancient cloisters, whose arches are filled in with exquisitely beautiful tracery, are yet standing. The other sides were destroyed by fire in 1824. In an angle of the cloisters is a curious circular building in the pointed style, in the centre of which is a Gothic model of the Holy Sepulchre, used for Good Friday ceremonies, which is curiously ornamented with Scriptural figures.