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Raufer (the bully); while otliers again have paintcd cornicesto their doors and Windows. Most of these houses bear thedate of 1600 on their walls. The Vorder-gasse, thoughnarrow and badly paved, has an exceedingly quaint andpicturesque air.

Another peculiarity of the Schaffhausen streets is thatmost of the inns have a kind of flourished swan's head (suchas is seen at the beginning of copy-books) executed in iron-work, and holding, as it projects from the wall, a modelledsign of the Gasthof —either a huge brass crown, for instance,or a black bird in a hoop, according as the tavern is styledthe "Krone'''' or the " RaabenJ"

The gateways and old rampart - walls surrounding thecity are likewise peculiar—being in a good State of preser-vation. But by the time the traveller has ascended theRhine as far as Schaffhausen he will have had such a glutof city walls and gates—beginning, indeed, at Köln, andincluding Linz, Oberwesel, Bacharach, Eltfeld, and a host oftumble-down old places—that he will hardly care to crossbis door-step to see the most picturesque barbican on thebanks of the river. Besides, to teil the truth, the Mühlen-thor, and Ober-thor, and Schwaben-thor of Schaffhausen,diff'er but little from the multitude of Square turrets that wehave now seen and described so often, and are barely tolerableafter the sight of the beautiful Spahlen-Thor at Basel.Further, one finds at Schaffhausen the same dried-up andplanted moats, and the same row of houses built againstthe rampart walls, as is visible at every other old Germantown.

The scene represented in the engraving gives as charac-teristic a peep at Schaff hausen as could be well chosen. Thespectator is supposed to be standing on the bridge crossing the