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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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VIEW ON THE RHINE. called the Castellated Rhine, and its narrows are termed the Castel-lated Rhine Pass. On, on we drifted. Every high rock seemed a gateway to somenew scene of beauty; wonder followed wonder. And now the water seemed agitated. Dark rocks projected intothe river; the view was intercepted. The boatman conversed in an animated way with me, and I lookedup to a high rock with an interested expression and an increduloussmile. He turned to us quietly and said,— This is the Lorelei Pass. He presently added, — That is the Lorelei.
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THE LORELEI. FIFTH MEETING FOR RHINE STORIES. l6l THE WONDERFUL STORY OF THE LORELEI. Who has not heard it, repeated it in verse, echoed it in song? It is the best known of the Rhine tales, not because it is the most interest-ing, but because it is associated with the noblest scenery of the river, withpoetry and music. It is hardly equal to such legends as the Drachenfelsand the Two Brothers, but it is lifted into historic prominence by itsassociations. Still the story is richer in incident than the mere song would indicate. Theorigin and development of the popular legend is as follows : — In the shadowy days of the Palatines of the Rhine, — shadowy because ofignorance and superstition, — the boatmen among the rocks above St. Goar onthe Rhine used to fancy that they could see at night the form of a beautifulnymph on the Lei, or high rock of the river. Her limbs were moulded ofair ; a veil of mist and gems covered her face; her hair was long and golden,and her eyes shone like the

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