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The inhabitants have rich collection of Roman antiquities.
The grand Electoral Palace, [illegible?] gate of which we en-
-tered the town at its right extremity, built of white free-stone.
Made a beautiful picture by moonlight. Formerly there
was here an excellent school of necessity, & the celebrated
Bethhoven, Salomon & several other great musicians learn
the first principles of that divine art in this place. We
found our hotel, the Star, excellent, & certainly the
quality of the viands, & the clean state of our apartments
did not lose by being contrasted with the filthy & miserable
condition of our Auberge at Coblence. We observed that
we were better off huddled & penned togetheras we
were at the hospital on the Gremiel, than at the three
rooms in Coblence. I have observed that the French
money (Napoleons, & Franks) is by far the most servi-
-ceable for the traveller in Germany, for it is easy to bring
your accompts from the German Florins, [illegible?]
into French money, by which you lose nothing. By many
pieces of Germany money, the currency of smaller kingdoms
you will lose something, & any worthy Landlord at Cob-
-lence in changing me a double Napoleon into German
money, for the road, availed himself of my inexperience
to pass upon me as six frank pieces, the crown of the
Empire, six-dollars, & the second in rank, as three
frank pieces, from everyone of which is paying for ar-
-ticles on the road a deduction has been made, & in
the aggregated amounting to between three, & four
French Franks. "Hic niger est, hunc tu Romane cavet."

Bill at Hotel 8 Fr/ travelling} 23 d}per Port [illegible?] to Cologne --32 [illegible?]
At G.A:m:we continued our route to Cologne through a country by no
means interesting, a distance of about 4.L. This town was once
the most flourishing in Germany. It extends itself on the left bank
of the river for about 1.League in a semicircular form from the
tower of Bayenthurme to that of Thürmchen. However its
origin from an intrenched camp of the Romans, which Marcus
Agrippa established on the ridge, which extends from
Mt. St. Mergen to that of Mariengradenberg. On that spot
was built the Capital town of the Ubü, who had lived on the
right bank of the Rhine & were carried over to the left bank
under Agrippa. The Emperor Claudian, to gratify his wife,