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- I could not feel within me that I was looking upon anything half so beautiful or half so interesting in any respect as me own North [?] Hudson with its banks covered with elegant comfortable homes, whose legends if written would perhaps be more improving & a hundred times more romantic than all the lies & poetry that has been scribbled & sold on the subject of King Rhine _ the old humbug. We looked around Bonn before night & bought some stockings for myself at 30 cts a pair & some for the children at 12 1/2 - We staid at the Hotel Royal a poor a table as I have seen anywhere - Sour milk & horrible chocolate - bad bread & butter too. The grounds were beautiful -sloping down to the river & very extensive - There was a Monkey tied up a tree who got hold of Grace's arm & gave her a pretty hard scratch. The afternoon next day we took the cars for Duseldorf [sic] - went to the Hotel Europe & had comfortable rooms & supper - walked about & found
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860