lay hold of, rolls about in agony upon the floor; the Captain, longing for the daylight to make its appearance, wrings his hands in the bitterness of anguish; while from the bed of the Professor, to which he has retired, a semi-swinelike grunt may ever and anon be heard, as some unhappy tormentor inserts its proboscis into the cuticle of that worthy. We went out in the early morning for a bathe, to try to alleviate the pain arising from the bites of the mosquitoes, but it was not of much service; and in the course of the day, what with the heat of the sun and the intense irritation, the hands and faces both of the Doctor and Professor, were covered with blotches as if they had been attacked with the small pox, although this natural and artificial phenomenon was indubitably aggravated by the constant rubbing and scratching with which they increased the irritation. We reached Mayence in the heat of the day, and having stowed the boat away, left the Professor in charge, and started by rail for Frankfort to procure letters &c. we expected to find there. The English Consul, upon whom we called, was much interested in the account of our excursion, and ran into a long story of a scheme he once had for bringing vessels from London to Frankfort direct, by giving them a shifting keel, to be used at sea but removed on entering the river; but from the model he showed us, we should very much doubt the practicability of the scheme. He also told us that he had been the means of establishing a direct communication by barge from Cologne to the Black Sea; moreover, he had, he said, been very instrumental in bringing the Queen of England on her visit to the Rhine some years ago, having first started the notion, and having procured at his own expense all the soundings of the river. That was the first time he had heard of the appearance of the British standard on the Rhine, and this was the first time he had heard of the union-jack on the same river. He much regretted that we had not brought the boat to Frankfort, and wondered to learn that we had carried the British colours right through France, 'without any squabbles or fuss. Only Englishmen,' said he, getting enthusiastic, 'would have originality to form or pluck to carry out such an undertaking.' We returned to Mayence, or rather to Castel, in the evening, and the following morning, having spent a few hours in looking over the Cathedral, &c., of Mayence, left on our way to Rudesheim. When |