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Rhine. Immediately before him, cresting the dumpy hill,is seen the old fort-like citadel or Castle of Unnoth, with itsthick ring of walls set with tall bastion towers, and its coveredviaduct-like way sloping down the hill-side to the housesbeneath.

This Castle is said to be of Roman foundation; the presentbuilding, however, was not finished tili the year 1564, whenit was erected, the story runs, in order to give occupationto the poor during a famine. Here, a Century before thepresent fort was constructed, Frederick Duke of Tyrol shieldedPope John XXIII. from the wrath of the Council of Con-stanz, in 1415; an act for which he was put under the banof the Empire.

Just below the Castle is an open Platz at the end ofthe bridge, with a light Gothic fountain in the centre. Thewalls of the house with the castellated or " Burgundian"gable, shown in the engraving, are decorated with frescoes ofknights holding banners; and facing this, at the opposite end ofthe Platz (but not visible in the print), is the large colonnadedZoll-amt, or Custom-house, with its arcade littered with barreisand cases. Then, beside the crane jutting over the quay, liesthe green steamer—the " Concordia," or the "Maximilian," orthe "Boden" —waiting to carry the next batch of tourists toConstanz. Here, too, facing the river, are generally to beseen the Swiss diligences loading in front of the little inncalled the "zum goldenen Schiff" (the Golden Ship), andnear this Stands the mansion-like Customs-office, with its orielWindows and long-winded title—" Schweizerisch EidgenossenchaftHauptzollstadte Schaffhausen.'"

Looking in the opposite direction, we see the sharp spiretipping the four-gabled tower of the Münster, and piercing,as it were, through the mass of surrounding roofs. ThisStands in the Hinter-gasse, or Back Lane, and was originally