Below Schandau you pass the bold promontory of Schramstein, close sunder the fortified heights of Pfaffenstein, and ‘Konigstein with its impregnable fortress—against whose walls Napoleon battered: in vain—thence on, through a wild country of tale-telling tradition, “thé cradle of gnomes and. kobolds,”’ till, at length, near Dresden you emerge among thriving . Villages and cultivated fields; like the exit, on the.Neckar, from the vallies of Odenwald upon the plains of the Rhine at Heidelberg.