THE BLACK FOREST.

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mere tourist, yet it is not deficient in attractive scenery. To describe but the tcnth part of it would Iead too far; still tbere are two spots in it which every visitor of tliese parts ought to see: tliey are the roinantic valley of Schappach, and the Falls of Allerheiligen. The latter are but at a short distance from the KaUenkopf, and accessiblc to carriages. An excellent smooth road leads from the villagc of Ottenhofen to the mountain-hciglit. On reaching this you see beneath you, in a deep, gloomy horse-shoe glen, the ruins of the convent of Allerheiligen. Dark firs everywhere around you raise their tall heads up to the skies above, and a profound silence reigns in the lonely, wild valley, hroken only hy the monotonous noise of the Lierbach, rushing past the ruined cliurch of the Abbey. An inspection of these rnins, lying there, as it were, torn off from the outcr world, will make a deep impression upon the beholder. The high arched Windows, and the tall pile of the helfry bear evidence to the former grandeur of this abbey, which was one of the riebest in these parts. From the old cloister-gardens an avenue of aneient lime trecs conducts along the brook, to the place where the latter, turning off in an angle, struggles against the opposing rocks for a passage into the valley below. And here the foaming torrent offers a spectacle, the like of which, in point of grandeur and of beauty, would in vain be searched for in all Gerinany, and Switzeiiand be- sides. Through a narrow ravine, Stretching down in va- rious Sharp turnings, the Lierbach wildly precipitates itself over a height of several hundred feet; now it comes down over the rocks with the noise of thunder, and filling the whole ravine with a fine spray, then the limpid waters collect in a basin of rocks, hollowed out by the work of Centimes, then again it rushes madly onwards, between high, towering cliflfs that rise on both sides to a height