The captain comforted me for my loss, however, by saying that the man was without any doubt a fraud who had spectacles, but kept them in his pocket in order to make himself conspicuous.
Below Hassmersheim we passed Hornberg, Goetz von Berlichingen's old castle.

It stands on a bold elevation two hundred feet above the surface of the river; it has high vine-clad walls enclosing trees, and a peaked tower about seventy-five feet high.

The steep hillside, from the castle clear down to the water's edge, is terraced, and clothed thick with grape vines.

This is like farming a mansard roof.

All the steeps along that part of the river which furnish the proper exposure, are given up to the grape.