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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...of Cleves, one of Heury Vtll.'s wives, was born; now converted into public offices, ana marked by a stiong tower, 180 feet high, built 1439, overlooking a fine prospect. It is the tcene of a legend, referred to in one of Southey's 1, oems. Another good view from the Clevorberg. Tr'e brick Stifiskirche (13lfi) has monuments of the Counts of Cleve, effigies of Adolph VI. ofUueldersand wife (1394), and brasses of John I. (1481) and II. At the RathhaLS are some frescoes. Statue of Elector Sigismund in the market place, and of Johanna Scbus, a local benefactor. At Prinzenhof is a handsome building, now an hotel, erected 1443, by Prince Maurice of Nassau, helonging to Prince Heury of Wuldeck and Pyrmoiit; and at Berg unit Thai, on the road to Xanthen, in a grove, is Prince Maurice's iron tomb (1625). Frederick the Great lived at Schloss Moyland. The confluence of the Waal and the Lower Rhine, or Leek, the two branches of the Rhine, takes place at a distance of eight or nine miles above Nymegen, on the former, and Arnhem on the latter. Here are dams, dykes, and jetties regulating the waters, so that no more than two-thirds of the tributaries should enter into the Waal, and only one-third into the Lock. On these hydraulic works depends the physical existence of Holland. The vigilance used by the engineers in strengthening them saved the country from being inundated in the floods of 1784. At Aart a safety-valve is formed by a dam thrown aeross an old arm of the Rhine. In the event of its waters at Arnhem attaining a certain heighf, a new passage to the sea would be formed for the Rhine in less than five minutes, which would suffice to sweep away the dam. Lo'bith is seen to the right, and marks the frontiers of Holland and Prussia. It is also the...