Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-08
LOG GERMANTOWN TWELFTH PULLAT1r.
Foot Tramp thrO' the FrunEtschc ScbVVeitz
and ihc Thurimger NgnId.
MunLg.TMun, 2sLh March, 1861.


MULE THUR, 2Slh March, 1861.
i.eIft Halle this morning at 1880 and spent
couple Of hours poking around the quaint
old streets of Leipzig, after just the thing for
waking-a pair of soldiers boots with thick
in sole Of soft felt. Left Leipzig at $40, and
after an hour or 50 We reached Altdort and be-
gan to enjoy change from the desoate flat
scenery. Va!Iies and little hills began to break
the monotony. We left the railroad at a little
city Of 10000 Inhabitants called Reichenbach,
principally celebrated for its factories AS
these were all closed we saw nothing TO de-
tain US, and joined a few men who were walk
ing OH atOo. We saw in Il minute how much
better our German goes now. For halt an
hours walk we had Il most delightful talk
with our new found friends, and they ended off
by bringing lis to nice little Gastol here
where drank glass OF beer with lhem had
a glorious romp with a two year old baby, and
went 10 bed TO dream Of my little wife.
WEIcHENFELD, Friday, 29th Up this
morning at 81 o'clock, and oil to see Il le-
markabIe railroad bridge near AIyau mot
Muhle, as / thought The walk so ealIy was
most refreshing. We took a quiet foot path
along beside Il little stream, and soon came in
sight of the immense bridge, 1900 odd feet
long, and 800 odd feet high. 1t is bedde1 on
granite, built in tour stories, or arches rising
one above tie other. Ii is only second in
grandeur to the High Bridge, New York, us
far as have seen. We now rose IL little hill,
and found the railroad train ready for US, and
hence to Nltsehkau, and Plancu, Iiehltauer,
Hot, (now in Bayern Bavaria, Beireuh We
took dinner at Tie last place, and looked at the
Denkmal to Jean Paul Richter, and then
StOuilprad kpanSarkS fnr ba al,
Schweitz. Passed the Fantasia, q neat little
garden and schlOss occupied by Hertzog Al
exander OF Wuriemberg. Nothing very re
marka6e after Cassel. From this point till
dark the road was very dull, the sun very hot,
and we very tired. just at dark, however,
the air began to freshen the road struck upon
beautiful little stream, the Wicscut, one of
the remote tributaries of the Rhine, and we
came across very intelligent baur, who en-
terlained US tor a mile or two. The valley
began to show those remarkable bluffs, coming
most down TO the waters edge, which charac.
terzes the country into which we were enter.
ing. Entered Weichenfeld at just o'clock,
sound asleep.
MUGGENDoRF, Saturday, 30th.-This has
been one OF the richest days L have ever ELI
joyed. This morning early we pushed out
from our snug little nest (44 cents for supper,
bed, and delicious trout tor breakfast and
soon reached Rabenstein C''cross nest"l by a
bye path over the hills. This is an old castle
perched on a high cliff, which looks directly
down into valley 800 feet deep. The walls,
dungeons &C., from feudal times, still stand.
It's kept in excellent repair by Graf Schon-
born and an enthusiastic servant, wlru lives
here The year round. He received us with the
greatest hospitality, told us all the old stories
OF the castles, and then led us by a break-neclk
path along the cliff 10 tile entrance to Saphie.
uShohle, remarkable cave in the side of the
hill. lie went in ahead OF us, and lii it up with
tapers, and then led us in, torches in hand.
The cave is lined above and below with most
beautiful staacttes The ceaseless dropping
of water is continually forming there little lei.
Giles of white stone, sometimes into fantastic
little images which visitors have called all i'm.
aginable names, from Napoleon and the Ma
donna, to chickens and mice sometimes iuto
curious curying and winding surfaces, which
look like LIS wash hung up to dry. lie
would run his torch up among these little
formations aud they would reveal to lis the
most beautiful and fantastic transparences
But by far the most remarkable revelations OF
this cave were its fossil remains Skulls
and bones of gigantic bears, antlers OF
deers, and still larger bones, which our
guide stoutly insisted must be mammoths aud
"ungeheufs" of all sorts, lay embedded ia the
earth in the greatest protusion. After hall an
hour OF rich and instructive amusement, we
emerged to the light again, and took a foot
path down the hill into u little village called
ODER Esleld, and then over bleak region six
miles, to Pottenstcin. We had not time TO
climb up steep, and, in ieudal times, inipreg-
nable cliff, to the old castle, which is still
preserved, drawbridge and all but, after
another feast on toreiten (trout), we took oar