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DOMESTIC MANNEKS OF IHE PEUSSIANS.

twin Square towers, and its white walls and castellated gables,are visible at almost eveiy turn of the steamer. It is seenin the engraving standing out on a small neck of land,and girt with its gardens and trees.

The town itself has scarcely an object worthy of notice.Though it boasts a large Hafen, and has a railway in junc-tion with the pier for the facilitation of traffic, besides apalace in immediate proximity with the town, the street(for there is but one in the whole of tliis Schloss-stadt),has even a more desolate appearance than the highwaysof Constanz itself.

Not a single shop, indeed, is visible. True, there is onehouse with a sign of fancy rolls carved over the door, butnot a bit of bread is to be seen in the window. There.is another house, too, with a small case of nails, tools, andsaucepans, hung beside the door-posts, and this belongs tothe ironmonger of the place. Tlien the butcher has a wire-work screen in front of his shop, as at Constanz, but not asingle Joint is to be caught sight of behind it.

The houses at the water's edge are the backs of thosein the " High Street," as it is called, and tliey start straightup out of the pool, after the fashion of the amphibiousstructures in our own Jacob's Island.

At the time of our visit to the place two of the German" Handicerk-burschers" (handicraftsmen), who were completingtheir " Wandelschaft," (the travelling term of their apprentice-ship), had crossed in the steamer witb us; these, as usual, hadtheir knapsacks at their back, and a spare pair of hob-nailedshoes and an umbrella strapped on to the top: but really onewould have fancied that the town was suffering from a super-abundance of workmen, from the manner in which the poorfellows were cross-questioned by the officials, and made toshow their passports to the officer stationed at the gangway