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We were amply gratified with the view of a landscape in which every thing beautiful and sublime in nature are united. The channel of the Rhine is here extended to near a mile in breadth , and flowing with less rapidity than we had yet feen it, appeared more like an arm of the sea than a river. The opposite shore presented to us the numberless towns, villages, castles, vineyards, and romantic rocks that cover the face of the Rhinegau ; encompassed by mountains rising gradually to a prodigious height, from the margin of the river at Radelheim, and forming a semicircle not exceeding seven miles in diameter, which terminates at Walluff, a village about sixteen miles higher up the Rhine. These mountains not only shelter the Rhinegau from the north and east winds, giving greater fertility to its vineyards, and rendering their produce more excellent than what any spot in either circle of the Rhine can boast ; but form likewise a back ground, the boldest and most majestic that can be imagined, to this beautiful and wonderful scene. To these objects were added, immense rocks that overhang the river, and form the celebrated streight of the Bingerlock, by which the extensive channel of the Rhine is so contracted, as barely to admit a practicable passage; the waterfall, by which the Nabe unites with the Rhine ; and the island on which stands a tower, rendered famous by the fabulous history of an archbishop of Mentz, who is said to have been pursued to this place and devoured by rats ; to which the people here give devout credit, and confidently relate it as a judgment upon him for his extreme covetousness and want of feeling for the poor . Having feasted our eyes as long as the time would permit without spoiling our appetites, we returned, with a determination to renew our observations as soon as we had dined. from Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix la Chapelle, and on river Maese, 1788 by John Gardnor

We were amply gratified with the view of a landscape in which every thing beautiful and sublime in nature are united. The channel of the Rhine is here extended to near a mile in breadth , and flowing with less rapidity than we had yet feen it, appeared more like an arm of the sea than a river. The opposite shore presented to us the numberless towns, villages, castles, vineyards, and romantic rocks that cover the face of the Rhinegau ; encompassed by mountains rising gradually to a prodigious height, from the margin of the river at Radelheim, and forming a semicircle not exceeding seven miles in diameter, which terminates at Walluff, a village about sixteen miles higher up the Rhine. These mountains not only shelter the Rhinegau from the north and east winds, giving greater fertility to its vineyards, and rendering their produce more excellent than what any spot in either circle of the Rhine can boast ; but form likewise a back ground, the boldest and most majestic that can be imagined, to this beautiful and wonderful scene. To these objects were added, immense rocks that overhang the river, and form the celebrated streight of the Bingerlock, by which the extensive channel of the Rhine is so contracted, as barely to admit a practicable passage; the waterfall, by which the Nabe unites with the Rhine ; and the island on which stands a tower, rendered famous by the fabulous history of an archbishop of Mentz, who is said to have been pursued to this place and devoured by rats ; to which the people here give devout credit, and confidently relate it as a judgment upon him for his extreme covetousness and want of feeling for the poor . Having feasted our eyes as long as the time would permit without spoiling our appetites, we returned, with a determination to renew our observations as soon as we had dined. from Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix la Chapelle, and on river Maese, 1788 by John Gardnor

Aquatint, entitled 'View of Rheinfels Castle at St.Goar looking down the River Rhine' from 'Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix la Chapelle, and on river Maese' by John Gardnor Illustrated by William & Elizabeth Ellis and others London : Ellis & Walter, 1788 Source: https://digital.ulb.hhu.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/8431249

Aquatint, entitled 'View of Rheinfels Castle at St.Goar looking down the River Rhine' from 'Views taken on and near the river Rhine, at Aix la Chapelle, and on river Maese' by John Gardnor Illustrated by William & Elizabeth Ellis and others London : Ellis & Walter, 1788 Source: https://digital.ulb.hhu.de/ihd/content/titleinfo/8431249

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John Gardnor (1729–1808) travels along the Rhine in 1787. From _Views taken on & near the River Rhine, at Aix-la-Chapelle, & on the River Maese_ 1788, ill'd by Elizabeth & William Ellis, R. Dodd, S. Alken, J. S. Robinson, & himself.

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