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After leaving Laufenburg, the road still continues besidethe Rhino, of which we catch occasional pecps, passing by theway the last of the four forest towns, Waldshut, which Standson the skirts of the Black Forest on the opposite Rhine shore.This town consists of a longish Cluster of cottage walls, witha large white pedimented dwelling at the back, and perchedon the top of a grecn shelving bank close beside the water.It was formerly a place of considerable importance, but inthe 15th Century was besieged by the Swiss Confederates,and now contains barely 1000 inhabitants.

A mile beyond this we come to the point of confluenceof the Aar with the Rhine, where the waters of four Swisslakes are mingled; for the Aar itself comes frora the Lakeof Thun, and is joined a few miles above where it flows intothe Rhine, not only by the waters of the Reus, carrying downthe current from the Lake of Lucerne, but by those of theriver Limmat, which is the outlet to the Lake of Zürich —whilst the Rhino itself brings with it the flood from theLake of Constanz.

Here the diligence crosses the Aar in a broad platformedboat, which serves for the ferry, and immediately afterwardswe pass the little Coblenz, or " Confluentia" of the Upper Rhine.In rainy weather it is said tliat it is possible to disthiguish thewaters of these different outlets to the lakes as they minglewith the Rhine, for the Rhenish flood is here even greenerthan ever, being now the very tint of the brightest crystalsof copperas; and as the muddier waters of the Aar pour