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قراءة كتاب The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence

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The Life of the Moselle
From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction
with the Rhine at Coblence

The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence

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THE
LIFE OF THE MOSELLE.


LONDON:
Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq.


Ein donnernd Hoch aus voller Brust

Ersling zum Himmel laut,

Dir schönem, deutschem Moselstrom,

Dir, deutschen Rheines Braut!

Julius Otto.


Original Title Page.

THE
Life of the Moselle,
FROM ITS SOURCE IN THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS
TO
ITS JUNCTION WITH THE RHINE AT COBLENCE.
LONDON:
L. BOOTH, 307 REGENT STREET.
1858.



THIS BOOK
IS
DEDICATED
TO
His Wife
BY
THE AUTHOR.


PREFACE.

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the most part, ignorant how very charming and eminently picturesque are the shores of this lovely stream.

“The Rhine! the Rhine!” is quoted by every one, and admired or abused at every fireside, but the Moselle is almost wholly unexplored. Lying, as she does, within a district absolutely overrun with summer-tourists, it is altogether inexplicable that a river presenting scenery unsurpassed in Europe should be so neglected by those who in thousands pass the mouth of her stream. When the Roman Poet Ausonius visited Germany, it was not the Rhine, but the Moselle which most pleased him; and although glorious Italy was his home, yet he could spare time

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