Excerpt from The Bride of the Rhine: Two Hundred Miles in a Mosel Row-Boat Among grand old hillsides, crowned with the homes of the robber knights and clad with their immemorial vineyards among old villages In the valleys, wherein a time-honored simplicity still holds its sway; among hills around which Old World legends cluster; and in valleys where all is peace and plenty and content, here we roam in a dreamy, blissful, antiquated land, where the best that nature can do for hill and dale greets us at every step, and where the work of Art's best days lies softened by Time's lightest touch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.