Excerpt from The Rhine, or a Journey From Utrecht to Francfort, Chiefly by the Borders of the Rhine, and the Passage Down the River, From Mentz to Bonn, Vol. 1 of 2: Described in a Series of Letters, Written From Holland, to a Friend in England, in the Years 1791 and 1792 Tat writer of thefe letters had no intention to prefix his name until the eve of their publication, when it was forcibly urged, that a narrative of faets required a ember, and that magmas travellers were always placed in the jig/puma: cia/i. This reprefentation compelled him to comply with the ad vice, though with unafi'efted reluctance. Confcious that he has been diligent to acquire accurate information, he cannot confent to be placed among fahdom authors; and as he has advanced every fentiment with the purefi intentions, he will not be alhamed of any, until it is proved to be a perma'om. 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.