Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 44
each of these fancies adds one to thelist of local pecuharities so valuable in the recollectionsof a journey. The road from Bale to Baden is for the first half ofthe way very pretty; we came in unfortunately for ratherdrenching rain, and so lost all beyond the suggestionof some striking views. The… … was Rheinfelden, a largish village (or perhaps I oughtto say small town, as it rejoices in a Eath-haus ofsome pretension), surrounded by very high walls, andentered by tall stone gate towers, pierced with pointedarches, and surmounted by upper stages of timber, withtiled roofs of quaint and…