Rollo on the Rhine

Rollo on the Rhine, by Jacob
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Title: Rollo on the Rhine
Author: Jacob Abbott

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ROLLO ON THE RHINE,
by
JACOB ABBOTT.

Boston: Published By Taggard And Thompson M DCCC LXIV.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Jacob
Abbott, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts
Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry
Riverside, Cambridge: Printed by H. O. Houghton

[Illustration: ROLANDSECK AND DRACHENFELS.--See chap. 5]
[Illustration]
ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE.
ORDER OF THE VOLUMES

ROLLO ON THE ATLANTIC. ROLLO IN PARIS. ROLLO IN
SWITZERLAND. ROLLO IN LONDON. ROLLO ON THE RHINE.
ROLLO IN SCOTLAND. ROLLO IN GENEVA. ROLLO IN
HOLLAND. ROLLO IN NAPLES. ROLLO IN ROME.
PRINCIPAL PERSONS OF THE STORY.
ROLLO; twelve years of age.
MR. and MRS. HOLIDAY; Rollo's father and mother, travelling in
Europe.
THANNY; Rollo's younger brother.
JANE; Rollo's cousin, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Holiday.
MR. GEORGE; a young gentleman, Rollo's uncle.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--THE APPROACH TO COLOGNE, 13
II.--THE UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL, 28
III.--THE GALLERIES, 44
IV.--TRAVELLING ON THE RHINE, 60
V.--THE SIEBEN GEBIRGEN, 77
VI.--ROLAND'S TOWER, 95
VII.--ROLLO'S LIST, 107
VIII.--A SABBATH ON THE RHINE, 117

IX.--EHRENBREITSTEIN, 135
X.--ROLLO'S LETTER, 141
XI.--THE RAFT, 146
XII.--DINNER, 168
XIII.--BINGEN, 185
XIV.--THE RUIN IN THE GARDEN, 194
XV.--RHEINSTEIN, 202
CONCLUSION. 219
ENGRAVINGS.
PAGE
ROLANDSECK AND DRACHENFELS. FRONTISPIECE.
THE RIDE, 12
COLOGNE IN SIGHT, 19
THE BEGGAR, 31
MINNIE'S ROGUERY, 51
TOWING, 63
DONKEY RIDING, 75
THE STUDENTS, 114
THE NUN, 122
THE EMIGRANTS, 132

ROLLO ON THE RAFT, 163
DINNER ON THE RHINE, 173
MINNIE, 190
THE NIGHT JOURNEY, 218
[Illustration: RIDE.--See chap. 15.]

ROLLO ON THE RHINE.
CHAPTER I.
THE APPROACH TO COLOGNE.
If a man were to be raised in a balloon high enough above the continent
of Europe to survey the whole of it at one view, he would see the land
gradually rising from the borders of the sea on every side, towards a
portion near the centre, where he would behold a vast region of
mountainous country, with torrents of water running down the slopes
and through the valleys of it, while the summits were tipped with
perpetual snow. The central part of this mass of mountains forms what
is called Switzerland, the eastern part is the Tyrol, and the western
Savoy. But though the men who live on these mountains have thus
made three countries out of them, the whole region is in nature one. It
constitutes one mighty mass of mountainous land, which is lifted up so
high into the air that all the summits rise into the regions of intense and
perpetual cold, and so condense continually, from the atmosphere,
inexhaustible quantities of rain and snow.
The water which falls upon this mountainous region must of course
find its way to the sea. In doing so the thousands of smaller torrents
unite with each other into larger and larger streams, until at length they
make four mighty rivers--the largest and most celebrated in Europe. All
the streams of the southern slopes of the mountains form one great river,
which flows east into the Adriatic. This river is the Po. On the western

side the thousands of mountain torrents combine and form the Rhone,
which, making a great bend, turns to the southward, and flows into the
Mediterranean. On the eastern side the water can find no escape till it
has traversed the whole continent to the eastward, and reached the
Black Sea. This stream is the Danube. And finally, on the north the
immense number of cascades and torrents which come out from the
glaciers, or pour down the ravines, or meander through the valleys, or
issue from the lakes, of the northern slope of the mountains, combine at
Basle, and flow north across the whole continent, nearly six hundred
miles, to the North Sea. This river is the Rhine.
All this, which I have thus been explaining, may be seen very clearly