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THE RHINE .

concealed part of the building, but I couldnot follow it far for want of light.

“ Spelunca alta fuit, vastoque iinmanis hiatu,

“ Scrupia.”

The wall of the tower is partly double,and once concealed a staircase, which isnow exposed, and leads to the second roomabove, on the window of which is rudelymarked in the stone, the names “ Ro-land and Hildegarde.” The whole buildingappears to have been formed with basalt,which constitutes the mass of almost allthe mountains hereabouts. By the assist-ance of the monks’ boat I again reached thegood sisters of LTle du Rhin, where theAbbess shewed me the tomb of Hildegarde,but refused to favour me with a sight ofthe living objects of my curiosity withinher walls. I passed the morning in the de-lightful garden of the convent, and afterdinner procured a boat to take me to Bonn .As I quitted the island they were going tovespers, and the evening being serene andtranquil, for a length of time I heard the