Excerpt from Industry of the Rhine, Series I, Agriculture: Embracing a View of the Social Condition of the Rural Population of That District
Amongst the many thousands who yearly flock to the banks of the Rhine there are not a few for whom the social activity, the condition, the wants and wishes, of the people they mingle with are as attractive objects as the picturesque scenery and romantic legends of the far-famed river. The figures in the landscape are its prominent feature for the deeper observer. For such travellers the following volume is written, for from such its author does not fear to be rebuked because he reads a moral in
"The noble arch in proud decay,"
where others choose only to enjoy its scenic effect. Nor does he anticipate from them the supposition that because he points to the effects of shady and sunny sites on the productions of the soil, he has no soul for the glowing tints of the sunlit stream, or the majestic gloom with which night invests the precipices that overhang it.
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