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transferred the above-mentioned parts of the original dungeonto M. Castel, antiquarian of Constanz."

This dungeon is somewhat after the style of a ship's berth,and the original door is now merely an old worm-eaten thickwooden portal, with huge rusty iron hinges and bolts, andfitted with a little trap, through which the bread used to behanded in.

As the loquacious little watchmaker—who is the pro-prietor of the exhibition, and pursues bis trade in one cornerof the room during the absence of visitors—points out thesethings to you, he keeps brushing away at some watch-wheelsthat he holds in bis band, while he exciaims, in strong nasalGerman-French, " Oh! ong a traiti ce pauvre komme pire qu'unchieng ! "

Not far from the " model prison " is a wooden and batteredlife-size fifjure of Abraham kneeling, with a ram at bis feet.This has the same Square Inquisition cap on the head as thefigure of Huss, and formerly formed part of the pulpit in theCathedral. The populace, however, mistook the figure, onaccount of the cap, for the effigy of the " heretic" himself, anddelighted to deface it by driving nails into its cheeks and eyes.It has now no nose, and the face is as if pitted with thesmall-pox from the heads of the tacks that have been ham-mered into the wood.

From the Council-chamber where the martyr was tried,let us now pass to the Cathedral where he was condemned.

The Constanz Münster is hardly to be reckoned handsome,after the eye has been pampered with the Doms at Strasburgand Freiburg. The open tower, which has been newly raised,is but a mere copy of the steeple of the latter edifice; whilethe spiral staircase, showing within the open stone tubes, arebut duplicates of the turret columns of Strasburg. There

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