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DOMESTIC MANNEKS OF TUE l'KUSSIANS.

rumbling of tlie barreis along the quays, and the jangling ofthe bars of iron on the stones, give you some faint notionthat you are really living in the nineteenth Century.

Friedrichshafen is part of the kingdom of Wirtemburg,whose territory Stretches from a little above Immenstadt toKressbronn, a little below Lindau.

The history of this town needs but a few lines.

In the first place, Friedrichshafen originally consisted oftwo distinct Settlements; namely, Buch-horn and Höfen — theformer occupying the site of the present town, and the latterthat of the palace.

In the year 837, Buch-horn (then called Buacliihorn) wasstrongly fortified; so that when, a Century afterwards, it wasattacked by a horde of Hungarians, it was impossible tosubdue it. The city was made free in the thirteenth Centuryby Rudolph L, and the Emperor Albrecht made a law that nomonks should possess any property in it.

In the year 1292 the town was taken by the Bishop ofConstanz, and in 1363 it was almost entirely destroyed byfire. It was afterwards rebuilt, and then taken by the Swedesduring the Thirty Years' War.

In 1802 it came into the hands of Bavaria, and passedsubsequently (in 1805) to Friedrich, King L of Wirtemburg,who proceeded to convert the ancient monastery of Höfeninto a summer residenz, and immediately afterwards Buch-horn and Höfen came to be called the City and Palace ofFriedrichs-hafen. Neustadt was built at the same time, so asto connect the Schloss with the town.

King Wilhelm, however, added, we are told, greatly tothe prosperity of the place by the construction of the harbour,and building the first steamers that ever traversed the Lake,so that Friedrichshafen came to be closely allied by commercewith the Swiss shore.