Show RIVER RHINE AND ROMANCE castled crag and rich cathedral R ward the traveler who takes the water route berlin history and nature collaborated to make the rhine from may ence to cologne a river ot remarkably remark abla beauty nature has been permitted to its own reputation and his tory resides with romance in crumbling ruins that overspread the crests of craggy heights below which the modem river steamers pass from its source in the white crowned alps the rhine runs down to the north sea one takes steamer at mayence or at cologne and journeys from thence to the other castles and cathedrals the legends and the ills tory that hang their glamour about boated walls and rose windows the story of the lorelei and the sight of the rock that sustains the legend all landmark on the rhine enrich the travelers experience the seven mountains offer the best scenery ot the rhine country thero ire numerous excursions to be made in the neighborhood most of them on foot if carriages are found as some limes happens to be too expensive anly the drachenfels and the peters berg can be ascended by rail not tar above the steamer reaches mandernach andernach Ander an old ronan colony there Is a cathedral at beauty and a view worth a weary jour ney to obtain coblenz Is situated just halt the distance between cologne and mayence at the confluence ot the rhine and the moselle and from it ams Is but bait an hour by rail coblenz has many remarkable sights especially ally the magnificent monument to he emperor william I 1 and the castle ot stolzenfels arenberg a monastery an the other side of the rhine Is to be reached by an electric railway from opposite coblenz |