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DOMESTIC MANNEKS OF THE PKUSSIANS.

like chiffonier-baskets) strapped to tlicir back, and havingfilled these with the spring-water, wend tbeir way with theirheavy liquid load, bending their bodies almost double.

Some of the town-gates, moreover, are sufficiently peculiarto claim a line or two of notice. These are merely tall Squareturrets, like the towers to our village churches, standing alonein the roadway, and with a little arched cntrance below.

St. Martin's Thor, at the end of Kaiser-strasse, has a largerüde fresco on its front of the samt on horseback, habited as aRoman knight, giving Ins cloak to an old man who is lyingon the ground. Underneath this is a " Denkmal " inscription,recording that the gate was erected to commemorate thefighting of the men of Freiburg, "für Kaiser und Vaterland"against the French, on July 7th, 1796.

The Schioaben Thor, on the other hand, Stands at the endof the Pfaffen-gasse by the Oberlinden, and leads to the CastleHill, immediately behind the town. The walls of this gateare decorated with a crude painting of a peasant, with awagon and six liorses laden with casks of wine. Some of thetownsfolk teil you that these represent the first butts of winebrought from the Black Forest after a seven-years' war.Others, on the contrary, assert that it depicts the vintnersbringing their offerings towards the building of the Cathedral.

But the capital ornament of Freiburg is the magnificentMünster, or Cathedral; and which is the more wonderful, asbeing the one large Gothic Dom-kirche in Germany that isnot only free from scaffolding-poles, but has its towers in apcrfect State; or, more marvellous still, has escaped destructionfrom both fire and war.

The Münster is said to have been founded by Conrad III.of Zähringen, in 1122; but the finer parte of the building—such as the tower and west front and porch — are a Century

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