18. My own impression, concerning the old inhabitants of the lower Rhine and the Weser, would have been that they consisted mostly of fish, with superficial frogs and ducks; but Mr. Gibbon's note on the passage informs us that the new confederation composed itself of human creatures, in these items following. 1. The Chauci, who lived we are not told where. 2. The Sicambri " in the Principality of Waldeck. 3. The Attuarii " in the Duchy of Berg. 4. The Bructeri " on the banks of the Lippe. 5. The Chamavii " in the country of the Bructeri. 6. The Catti " in Hessia. All this I believe you will be rather easier in your minds if you forget than if you remember; but if it please you to read, or re-read, (or best of all, get read to you by some real Miss Isabella Wardour,) the story of Martin Waldeck in the 'Antiquary,' you will gain from it a sufficient notion of the central character of "the Principality of _Waldeck_" connected securely with that important German word; 'woody'--or 'wood_ish_,' I suppose?--descriptive of rock and half-grown forest; together with some wholesome reverence for Scott's instinctively deep foundations of nomenclature. 19. But for our present purpose we must also take seriously to our maps again, and get things within linear limits of space. All the maps of Germany which I have myself the privilege of possessing, diffuse themselves, just north of Frankfort, into the likeness of a painted window broken small by Puritan malice, and put together again by ingenious churchwardens with every bit of it wrong side upwards;--this curious vitrerie purporting to represent the sixty, seventy, eighty, or ninety dukedoms, marquisates, counties, baronies, electorates, and the like, into which hereditary Alemannia cracked itself in that latitude. But under the mottling colours, and through the jotted and jumbled alphabets of distracted dignities--besides a chain-mail of black railroads over all, the chains of it not in links, but bristling with legs, like centipedes,--a hard forenoon's work with good magnifying-glass enables one approximately to make out the course of the Weser, and the names of certain towns near its sources, deservedly memorable.