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DOMESTIC MANNEBS OF TUE rBUSSTAXP.

ceptions among the people, but Liebig, and Sciiönbein, andAegelandeb, and Bessel are no more types of the ordinaryintellect of Germany than all Englishmen are Siiakspeabes,or Newtons, or Hebsciiels in mind.

While we write, for example, tliere crawls past onr windowthe same ox-wagon as the people nsed when the Romans were

OX-WAGOH AT PRESENT l'SED IN GERMAXY.

ancient eohan PLAUSTRUM (copied from a bn.i-relie/at ßome).

here teaching them the arts of civilised life; and if we walkeddown to the Rhine we should see the very same rnde, square-bowed boats that Germanicus originally taught them to build—now nearly 1800 years ago ! Their ploughs, too, remain tothis day the modeis of the old Roman "aratra;" and eventhe " Haar-nadels" and " Runde-mütze's" worn by the peasant-women on the banks of the Middle-Rhine are merely the