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behold on board but 6 cannons drawn up in firing array and as many men employed in loading and discharging them & all to the honor & glory of our Sovereign Lord the King of Prussia whose birthday it happens to be. And from the cabin below issues a voice ‘Adams, here am I’ which from the frequency of its repetition we know to belong to our diligence fellow passenger Mr Davenport; his bedroom was next to ours at the Hotel de Cologne (a good hotel) and here we had become familiar with it. For the last 2 journeys, we had the companionship of 2 Oxford men whose names I cannot recollect; now the first person we met on board was Mr ?Avery of New College.

Now for a description of the scenery of the Rhine & for Byron’s immortalization of it in his Childe Harold I will refer to Murray’s hand book page 213. Thirteen pages

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