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Excerpt from The Traveller's Guide to the Rhine Gothard, from three small springs, which come from three different mquntains. It is soon 111-6 creased by a multitude of torrents, and falls into the lake of Constance, which it crosses with great impetuosity for the space of six leagues, when it' leaves it between the villages of S(ygen and Es ehenz, and retakes 1te former name. Below Schaf. Hausen, the navigation of the river is not very easy 1 there are, however, boats which will descend(110t Without danger) as far as the fall whith it makes below this town. They are constructed with very light planks of fir, and are called, in the language of the country, La-uer Tanner: the bottom is quite flat, the sides quite straight, the prow and stern very low, and not terminated in a, poiht. These vessels are generally sold at the places where they disembark their cargoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.