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    A STRfeLIi THROUGH HAMBURGH. 393

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    As I Stand On The Deck Ofthe Hamburgh St...

    little niore than a succession of detached villas built upon the the hilly water banks _' s on edge the and left , interspersed ' with their with gardens suburban sloping" houses down of to

    entertainment and , tea gardens . After gaining the nearest point we can approach , for the laden steamer cannot come within a

    long distance of a landing place , the rush of luggage-seeking begins . Happier , however , in some respects , is every traveller

    arriving at this port than the visitor to almost any other part of the worldfor herenot only is no passport demandedbut

    property also is , exempt , from interference , and no vexatious , customhouse intermeddles with bag or baggage .

    Hamburgh , erst consecrated "by her ancient founder to the great god Ammon , and now one of the last remaining famous Free

    Towns , owns herself to be " poor in sights" as regards the objects intelli sought gent by the beholder mere si ght all -seer , but siht claim " and s , nevert certainl heless the , to city be , to itself the

    presents a very interestin , g one scene g to ; the stranger . y No long dull rows of uniform houses set at riht angles with each other oppress

    g the weary walker with a sense of endless monotony ; every turning _* offers a different icturemarked with some new and often striking

    peculiarity . Intersected p , as it is everywhere by canals , some of the street views are quite Venice-like , the houses rising as it were

    directly out of the water , with bridges appearing at short intervals ; trees are lanted along many of the thoroughfares ; churches- of

    frequent diverse an feature p d curi ; and , if one not of of the very loftiest beautiful steeples architecture in Europe , , f that orm of

    the St . Michael ' s Kirche , which is 456 feet high ( about 100 feet more than our St . Paul ' s ) , towers over all else , and reappears

    continually . Wherever the width of the causeway will admit , little lating trottoirs stream , often of formed foot of asphalte and , in accommodate either of the the great ever divisions

    -circupassengers , of the town—the ancient part , which dates itself " before the Fire , " ' or the new and handsome districtthe chronology of which

    com-, pervading mences " sp after irit the of life Fire and "— activity every part ; a gentler is animated activity with than an that all of

    -London it is true , for here there is no more of torrent rush than of pool stagnation , but all flows on with the cheerful current of a-

    lively river . The first spot undoubtedly to attract a visitor is Hamburgh ' s-

    chief glory , her Jungfernstieg . This " Maiden ' s Walk / ' which dates from 1665 , is a promenade by the Alster , which

    formshere a large square sheet of water surrounded by a gravel path on shaded three by sides trees large ; beyond and thi loft s is houses the road and , livel hotels y with numerous traffic , ari and d , ' .

    enormous . A few , handsome shops y face , the fourth side , which is _* - _Jnerely a bridge-like road crowned with a windmill in the centre ,

    and dividing this inner basin from the larger expanse of water * beyond , save where a single arch permits a narrow stream of

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    A Strfelii Through Hamburgh. 393

    A _STRfeLIi _THROUGH HAMBURGH . 393

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/33/