Excerpt from Jetta or Heidelberg Under the Romans, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical Novel Mary direction, but joined his dark green waters to the paler'green of the mightier stream in qliite another place. In the winter and spring, at the time of the high tides, the small river-god reared indeed mightily his lofty crest. _but in summer the stream, which flowed through the most idyllic valleys of Germany exhibited no such propensities. Peacefully glinting from thousand shimmering eyes it sped its course between high blocks of granite and yellow sand-banks, reflecting in calmer spots, like some placid lake, the serene imagery of hills and woods. To the left, where it issued from the valley, the well-wooded Mons Valentiniani With its Roman watch-tower stood boldly prominent, to the right Mons Piri, named thus from the wild pear-trees which crowned in great quantities its bald peak. Between these two giant-mountains, which guarded like twin Pylones the entrance to the sacred wood of Wodan, the lovely river, com fortably widening its bed, issued forth into the verdant Rhine plain. So'me hundred yards below the victorious Imperator had restored the old Roman swinging-bridge, and erected a fortified camp, or outpost fort as we should call it, to guard the cross-roads near the bridge, and to prevent the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.