Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 440
d years; more castlesappear on the cliffs, among them Nollingen, stand-ing nearly six hundred feet above us, at the sum-mit of a jagged cliff called The Devils Ladder,up which, the legends say, a brave knight rode onhis gallant steed to rescue a lady from the gnomesof the mountain. Now and then we… … in some may think it even impossible for the laborers to stick to their work. These vines are so carefully pruned, that they do not conceal the tilled ground. These mountains and hillsides would be much prettier in grass, forest, and beetling crags than in vineyards ; but the wine from this region…
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