ne, whose
majestic stream the eye can easily trace, the long range of the
mountains of the _Black Forest_ limits the horizon. The first
peak that is seen is that of the _Eichelberg_, at the opening of
the valley of the _Murg_; then comes the _Fremersberg_, the
_Mount-Mercury_, the mountain with the ruins of _Yburg_; all
these names are known to those who have visited Baden. Beyond
these summits is the high level ground of the _Hornisgruende_, on
the other side of which is seen, in the midst of a forest, the
dark lake named _Mummelsee_. Farther on, eastward, beyond the
arsenal of Strasburg and the village of Kehl, you observe the
castle of _Schauenburg_, near Oberkirch, where the valley of the
_Rench_ begins. After gliding over the ruin of _Fuersteneck_ and
_Schauenburg_, the eye rests on the stately buildings of
_Ortenberg_, rebuilt after the middle age architecture, at the
entrance of the valley of the _Kinzig_. Directing your eye more
towards the South, you discover the mountains of _Triberg_, and
close to them those of _Lahr_; then comes the loftiest peak of
the _Black Forest_, the _Feldberg_, 1494 metres high. Farther on
the eye may discover (if tine) the _Ballon_ and the _Blauen_,
behind the hills of the _Kaiserstuhl_; thence this ridge of
mountains is lost sight of. In the plain, between the Rhine and
the Vosges, a double row of poplars points out the _Canal_ (from
the Rhone to the Rhine). The first peak seen in the range of the
Vosges towards the South-East is the _Ballon of Sultz_, 993
metres high; the eye then discovers in a western direction the
ruins of the three castles of _Egisheim_, _Haut-Hattstatt_ and
_Landsberg_, the top of the _Ballon_ of _Gebwiller_, 1426
metres high the _Hoheneck_, the ruins of the old castles of
_Kientzheim_, _Rappoltstein, Hoh-_ (High) _K[oe]nigsburg_,
_Ortenburg_, _Bernstein_, _Frankenburg_ and the summits of the
_Bressoir_ and _Ungersberg_. Looking in the direction of
Saint-Thomas' church, at one glance the eye overlooks the country
of the old _Hohenburg_, so picturesque and so rich in monuments
and historical associations: the castle of _Landsberg_, the rock
of the _Maennelstein_, the convent of _Sainte-Odile_, behind which
rises the level ground of the _Champ-du-Feu_; further on to the
right, are the ruins of _Girbaden_, the peaks of the _Donon_ and
_Schneeberg_. Here the mountains are by degrees lost from sight
in the distance; on the horizon one may however distinguish the