Tubingen--Its University--Different from ours--Agree to post to Frankfort--Of German Posting, and Dinners--Feather-beds--Stoves--Stutgard--A handsome City--Palace, its Decorations--Industry of the Queen--Council Chamber--Royal Stables--Garrison composed handsome Troops--Palace at Ludwigsburg--Waggons and Traffic on the road--Heilbron--Escape from being overturned--Sinzheim--Cossaok arrives there--Heidelberg--Its Castle--Venerable in Ruins--The Inn--Rich Country--Quantity of Potatoes--Manheim--Regularly built, but much deserted--The Palace in Decay--Walks--Darmstadt--Unfurnished and ill situated--Palace--Handsome Gardens--Frankfort a Magnificent City--Inns--Opulence of its Merchants--Population--Jews--Gates and Fortifications--Cassino--Villas--Orchards--Hochst--Inscription-- Hochheim--Rhiagau Wines--Mayence--Its Strength--Handsome only at a Distance--Its Bridge--Cathedral--Population--Exportation of Corn--Large Cabbage 258 CHAP. XVI. Embark on the Rhine--Political Rhapsodies of two Frenchmen--Beautiful Scenery--Gulph of Bingerlock--Blighted state of the Vines--Most distressing to the Inhabitants--Boppart--'God Save the King'--Bonfires--Size of Paris and London--St. Goar--Coblentz--Royal Saxon Guards--Ruins of Ehrenbreitstein--Andernach--The Devil's House--Lowdersdorf--Linz--Bonn--Illuminations, Balls, &c.--End of the Picturesque Scenery--Boat driven on Shore--Walk to Cologne--A vast and gloomy City--Simile of Dr. Johnson's--Few Country Houses on the Rhine--Rubens--His excellence as a Painter and his great Modesty--Juliers--Aix la Chapelle--Its Antiquity--Waters--Pleasant Situation--Population not equal to its Estent--Burscheid--Manufactures of Cloth, &c.--Cathedral--Sunday ill observed--Liege--A large and extremely dirty City--Booksellers--Cutlery--Distress of the Manufacturers--Thieves--Bad Money--Expeditions Public Carriage--Axiom of Rousseau--St. Tron--Chimes--Tirlemont, its much reduced Manufactures 278 CHAP. XVII.