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called Flause, & many beautiful farms, & habitations
of vine-dressers. The environs of these richly-coated hill are
beyond description enchantingly beautiful. Geisenheim on
the same side makes a superb appearance with its hilly
grounds adorned with gardens, country houses, & vineyards;
nor is Rudesheim inferior in Beauty. Here in the centre of
the stream we looked back upon our course, & saw the whole
line of beautiful Islands, which we had passed, & on the night
downwards, black & deep gulph with high-towering
rocks above crowned with an ancient Castle, & thro wh:
the river forces its passage. One the left the [?] is seen fall-
-ing down its waters to Burgen to unite them with
the Rhine. Bingen stands at the foot of the Mountain
Klopp not far from which rises that St Rock, & to the
right Rupertsberg with the ruins of an ancient Convent.
The scene before us was closed by the steep rocks hilly near
the mouth of the [?], & upon both sides of the Rhine, for -
- ming a gulph, which seemed to swallow up the river.
Charlemagne having discovered from his palace of
Ingelheim, that the snow melted sooner upon [?]
of Rüdesheim, than all the others, brought there the grapes
from Burgundy, & Orleans, & they are to this day called
Plänner, or the grapes of Orleans. On the left bank
opposite Rüdesheim is situated Bingen. On the Right
the Mt Rüdesheim towers into the clouds, & at the point
where the noe winds round the Mts covered with woods, under
whose deep shade is the dark gulph of Bingerlock - &
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