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70,000 inhabitants, and the seat of the Ger  Mayence has a population of
near 40,00(
man Diet,                                  and is the most important fortress
of th
   The evening shades close around me, and German Confederation. The garrison,
ha]
 yet I have visited none of the distinguished Austrian and half Prussian,
numbers 10,00
 public buildings, none of the fine promenades nen. The first thing which
strikes me is th
 so characteristic of Frankfort, none of the magnificent view here possible
of the Rhine
 several private residences remarkable for their the Taunus mountains, the
vineyards of Hoch
 assciation with some of the greatest men of eim, and the valley of the Main;
one of th,
 the dead past; I have thus far endeavored rare pictures which can never
be effaced fron
 simply to gain a just general idea of the city the memory. My second thought
is of the pe
 as a whole.  But the streets are bright with culiar style of its architecture.
Most of thi
 the light of burning gas, and I must improve public buildings are of red
sandstone an(
 the hours between this and midnight, for in some of them have stood nearly
a thousan(
 the early morning I turn my face westward. years.
   Have seen the Donkirche, where the Emper- A
 ors of ancient Germany were crowned-a fine    ong the many statues and monument
 old cathedral, the last remaining specimen of erected to the memory of the
great men whost
 the ancient German style of architecture- history is linked with that of
the city, tht
 have walked round and round the monuments most interesting to me is the
monument tc
 of Goethe and Guttenberg in the Hop Market; Guttenburg, the inventor of
the art of print.
 have stood before the modest old two-story ing with movable types, who is
claimed to
 mansion in the Hirschgraben wlhere Goethe have been born here in 197. Whether
he
 mansiorn, ind theouirseligra   where Gofthe was really born here, or in
one or more of the
 was born, and thought of the wonderful sway half dozen other cities which
contend for the
 of Poetry over the human mind in all gener- hon  other             tis w
hift into
 atious; have sought out the quaint old house honor of having brought this
great gift into
 of Luther, with its three stories and high steep the world, is to he a matter
of much less ac
 roof, each story projecting over the one be- count than is the fact that
he was actually
 low, and throwing the upper windows so far somewhere born, and with a genius
which has
 over the narrow street that one could almost done more than almost any other
to advance
 shake hands with his third-story neighbor on the great world in civilization.
 Aye, thou
 the opposite side; paused at the dwelling in wast born, 0 Genius of Printing
I and Gutten-
 the Judenstrasse where Rothschild and his berg was thenceforth a name to
be spoken
 children were born, and at the present count- with gratitude by the enlightened
people of
 ing house of Rothschild, ruler of all the mon- all nations through all coming
time! Wheth-
 ey kings: and dictator to the thrones of Europe er this statue, by the great
Thorwalden, shall
 have lunched and slept, and am now on my  stand in the Guttenberg-Platz
admired and re-
 way down the picturesque valley of the Main vered, for one century or for
twenty, is to
 and through the famous vineyards of Hocheim, thee, and to me of but little
moment; the
 source of the popular Hook wines, to     Press, the Press is thy monument
now and
         AYESNCE, KAIN7 OR MXNTZ,         forever !
On the Rhine.  I had intended to visit Wies-  Here also, and not far away,
I find the mon-
baden, capital of the Duchy of Nassau, f  ument erected in 1843 by the ladies
of -Mentz
moun, like Baden-Baden, for its baths and hot in honor of their favorite,
Meissner, the mi-
springs, and likewise interesting to me as  m     ho   of   so succe,  the
praite  of
seat of the chief Agricultural Seminary of  orel, who sang so successfully
the praises of
Nassau, and of the splendid Laboratory of the  women,  and sang not ing else
 Frae
great Dr. Fresenius; but the narrowing limit they called him, and with that
tender name,
of time within which I must again be at Lou- with the aid of Schwanthaler's
artistic genius
don, will not permit,                    he goes down the ages, a precious
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