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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
Ein donnernd Hoch aus voller Brust
Ersling zum Himmel laut,
Dir schönem, deutschem Moselstrom,
Dir, deutschen Rheines Braut!
Julius Otto.
Life of the Moselle,
TO
ITS JUNCTION WITH THE RHINE AT COBLENCE.
L. BOOTH, 307 REGENT STREET.
1858.
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