Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-09-05
TFor the Observer.
Letter from Kew. y los.
w. Murphy.
HANOVER, GERMANY.
July 29th, 1891.

lie Ill st lbihS fbo'I N1
ing of the pearness OF land, which
came in sight, was a light house very
dinly seen through the fog on ore
of the Scilly Islands, SO dimly seen
that it seemed to be in the air rather
than on the land. Then came Lands
End, a charming vision Of beauty
for a few short moments, and then
covered up by the fog out Of oor
sight much to our disappointment.
Thus was near night. Then came
the light from Eddystone ADD ether
lighthouses to remind US that We
were coas,ing along 10 sight Of old
England. A very early rise 10 The
morning gave a glimpse to a few
en,erprisiug passengers Of the Isle OF
Wight. We were pear enough TO
Lave seer its houses, fields, and PEG.
pie, had the fog only lifted to please
our eyes. We however felt repaid
TOR our trouble in seeing simply it's
bold outline In a few hours how
ever the tog cleared away and we
saw Brighton, New Haven, Beachy
Head "a very fine bold head-land)
Eastbourne, Hastings, Dungeness "a
beautiful sand bank running far out
into the wafer Folkcstone aud DO.
yer. This las, with It's famous old
Castle and the chalk cliffs on either
side of the town made a picture, or
q series Of pictures, as We looked at
it from d ffercnt points Of view, not
surpassed by anything which most OF
us had seen, and lorg to be remem-
bered by al! OF US as particularly
beautiful.
After passing Dover soon old
England passed out OF view, and
then came after some hours charm
ing g'impses of Dunkirk, Newport,
Ostende, Bruges and other places on
the Continent until at last, late on
Saturday evening July 18th, we an
chored in the mouth of the Scheldt
near Flushing in Holland. The mex,
morning the slow voyage up that
quiet river 10 Antwerp in the clear
bright sunshine was iull Of delight,
the dikes, the many long and straigh,
rows Of trees, the neat brick farm
houses all covered with red tiles, the
villages, the church towers and
spires, the costumes of the people,
the many quaint vessels peculiarly
rugged and with red sails as we'll as
white and black, the richly cultiva.
ted fields aud the general air OF
prosperity in the wonderfully thick
~ populated country, all being
strange and attractive. Then came
Antwerp, the spire of its noble Ca
thedral 4O2 feet high being seer fol
many miles before any other part Of
the city came in sight. Here many
met friends, and among them tbl.
writer, some looking tor the n and
some joytulIy surprised. The Csthe
dral, so beautiful outwardly in II,
delicate tracing in stone and inward
ly in its beautiful wood carvings cen,
turtles old, and its paintings by
Rubens, was visited, and the mex,
morning the still grandcr one 81
Cologne which was begun in 1915
and not finished until 1880. The
two towers are over 500 feet high
There is a 80 tor bell in one o
them and also a chime Of bells. The
building is 444 feet long and POI
feet wide with height OF nave IA;
feet. There are Sc vast columns in
side, with fine statues, carved stalls
ancient stained windows and muct
more, enough o interest one 70,
days and weeks if time could bt
spared for the purpose
From Antwerp TO Cologne and
from Cologne to Hanover our jour
Dey was through a country mostI,
level, but in some places beautiful,
hilly and rolling, and again for a few
miles mountainous, agricultural main
~, bat also in some parts nanuiac
unng ard in some again mining
The principal towns passed were
LIege, terrestrial, EerSers, AK la
chapelle, Dusseldorf Dortnumie
BIeiete.l, IIertord and Minden. Her
hcS'hal is where We crossed III.
German frontier, where our !ucrag.
vas examined and where The IAN
guage changed all at once frou
Flemish and French to German
HerPrd is The place from which
llenglst and IIorsa went to Englan,
IN he times long ago.
Hanover with its suburb Linden i
a city of about 20O, 900 Inhabitants
There are quite a number OF Euyll>'
and American residents here, Their,
beng many good schools. Tn
Rev. DR.. Wilkins is the Chaplain o
the Anglo-American congrecat;o
which wor>hips in an old churci
which dates back to the year 1884
Hanover is growing very rapidly
the new part being like all o,he
modern cities. But the old par,
built up very closely with narrow
streets and alleys is By far the mos