lakes and valleys. It was noted for its grand defence by the Wurtemberg commandant Widerholt during the protracted Thirty Years' War, and his monument. is erected there. Being one of the southern outposts of Germany on the Swiss frontier it also displays a monument to Bismarck. The French destroyed this fortress at the close of the eighteenth century. The Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen adjoins to the southward and spreading along the winding and picturesque Rhine is its capital Schaffhausen. Its Münster, an early Romanesque basilica constructed in the eleventh century, and recently restored, is now the Protestant parish church. The old bell of this church, cast in 1486, suggested Schiller's Lied von der Glocke, and a few years ago, being replaced by a more modern bell, was removed to the Public Museum. There is an elaborate Promenade, with a high terrace, overlooking the Alps and the Rhine valley, and here is displayed a bust of the Swiss historian Von Müller, born at Schaffhausen in 1752. The ancient castle of Munot rises above the town, its stupendous round tower, over one hundred and fifty feet in diameter having walls sixteen feet thick. The Rhine flows in winding course southwest from Schaffhausen, and about two miles away is the famous Rheinfall, regarded as the most attractive in the volume of the waters in Central Europe. An irregular rocky ledge diverts the current and crosses the river, the Rhine taking three leaps over it, and describing a semicircle around it. On the northern bank, the ledge |