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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: from Strasbourg, arrived at Mainz. The course of the Rhine
below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends
rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep,
and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the
edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.
In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous
precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn
of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a
meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
We travelled at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the
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