"But I seem to have forgotten the source of the Danube, which truly _was 'another'_[HL] Danube after we had seen it; or, more properly speaking, after we had seen the moor-land country surrounding the Town of Doneschingen, where we knew we should meet with the source of that famous river; and it is not only _there_ (in that Hollow wild without grandeur), but actually within the walls of the Duke's courts adjoining the trim flower garden. The bountiful spring is received by a large square stone basin, and thence flows through the gardens in a narrow stream like a vigorous mill-race. Had an active boy been by our side he would have over-leapt it. That streamlet, after the course of a few hundred yards, falls into the bed of the united rivers the P---- and the P---- which take their rise in the _moorish_ hills seen on the right in the road from Villingen, and which we looked upon from the gardens at the same time that we saw the new-born streamlet (called the source of the Danube) gush into their channel. I suppose it must be the remarkable strength of the spring which has caused it to be dignified with its title; for certainly those other two streams (united a little above the gardens) are the primary sources (of this branch at least) of the Danube." (From Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, vol. i.) What Dorothy Wordsworth mentions in reference to the Danube occurs in many other rivers; _e.g._ the source of the Clyde, in Scotland, is a tiny burn in Lanarkshire, which, after a short moorland course, falls (near Elvanfoot) into the large stream of the Daur--the latter having come down for many miles from the Lead Hills district. The P---- and P---- is probably a mistake for B---- and B----. The mountain torrent of the Bregé in the Schwartzwald is joined by the Bregach, and when the stream receives the waters from the spring in the Castle Garden of Doneschingen it becomes the Danube.--ED. VARIANTS: [Footnote 490: 1822. But in the note to the poem the reading is "light." ] [Footnote 491: 1840. Reaches, with one brief moment's rapid flight, The vast Encincture of that gloomy sea 1822. ] [Footnote 492: 1827. Whose rough winds Orpheus soothed; whose waves did greet So skilfully that they forgot their jars-- 1822. ] [Footnote 493: 1837. Argo exalted by that daring feat To a conspicuous height among the stars! 1822. Argo, exalted for that daring feat To bear in heaven a shape distinct with stars. 1827. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote HH: Referring to the circumstance that the Danube rises in a country where the Catholic religion prevails, and flows eastwards through lands where the faith of Islam is professed.--ED.]