Remarkable Things seen from the Terrace of the Hotel at Rolandseck, by Rollo H., Saturday Evening, August 29.
1. An elegant steamer, painted green. Her name is the Schiller. She is going up the river.
2. Another steamer, the Kœnig. Ladies and gentlemen on the deck, under an awning.
3. I can see the ruins of Drachenfels with my spy glass, and the inn near the top of the mountain, painted white. I have been trying to find the path, to see if I could see any donkeys going up; but I cannot find it.
4. A boat with some men and women in it putting off from the landing just above here. They are going down the stream. The current carries them down very fast. I think they are going over to the island.
No, they are going away down the river.
5. A great steamer coming down, with flags and banners flying.
Now she has gone by, only I can see the smoke from her smoke pipe behind the point of land.
6. The nuns are taking a walk under the trees on the island. Some of the girls of the school are going with them. The nuns are dressed in black, with bonnets partly black and partly white. The girls are dressed in pink, all alike. They are laughing and frolicking on the grass, as they go along. The nuns walk along quietly. The girls are having an excellent good time.
They are walking away down to the end of the island. The walk that they are going in is bordered by a row of poplar trees.