CHAPTER IX.
MAYENCE TO NUREMBERG.
Mr. Winter as usual had telegraphed to Mayence for rooms, and found very comfortable, large rooms ready for them in a new, pleasant hotel near the station.
After resting a little while Mr. Winter said, "Who wants to go with me and take a drive around the city?"
The entire party, even Mrs. Winter, who had thought she was too tired to go out again, said they would like to go.
What a delightful drive they had, at the close of a warm, lovely day, around that interesting old city, with its wonderful fortifications! The view of the rivers at the base of the hill they thought as pretty as any they had seen all day.
Mr. Winter told them what a very old city it was, a Roman camp having been laid there thirty-eight years before Christ.
MAYENCE—GENERAL VIEW.—Page [65].
The foundations may be said to date from fourteen years B.C., when Drusus built his extensive fortifications. There is a Roman monument forty-five feet high erected in honor of Drusus. There are also remains of a Roman aqueduct to be found outside the city.
The cathedral was founded in 798. It has been burnt and restored six times, and is one of the grandest in Germany.