SUNEISE AT THE DRACÜENFELS.

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called the " Ombres chinoises." And when we had solved tlicghostly mystery we amused ourselves, before sliding underour " eider-dovvn" for tlie night, by making the spectre of theDrachenfels perform a variety of evolutions that are utterlyinconsistent with the gravity of the spiritual world.

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Suni°ise at the Drachenfels.

We were up and out the next morning by five o'clock,for we wished to see the veil of Night dravvn slowly from" the face of Nature," and to bebold the great colourless discof the earth become gradually tinted with the increasing light;and to watcli the shapeless black masses spring, as it were,into form, and the lovely details of the mountains, and theriver, and the plains come peeping out, one after another,as the sky passes from black to grey, and from grey to blue,with the approach of the great orb.

It was still dark, and the sky overcast, when we ascendedthe crag above the Gasthof, on our way to the ruined towerthat Stands on the summit of the Drachenfels.

When we reached the top, we were just upon 1000 feetabove the level of the sea, and more than three times theheight of the greatest pyramid above the bed of the Rhine,while the patch of earth upon which we were standing wasno bigger than the platform of a river steamboat's landing-pier. Nor was the ground such as could be called " table-land," for it was as füll of mounds and hollows as a heath,and with large bits of the rock peeping up from the soil, suchas are seen on the beach by the sea-side.