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transcription: it like all the towns in Germany - cheerful & neat with shady walks & parks - Thursday we were at the depot in good time for the Turelock [?] express to Amsterdam but in our haste got into the wrong train & were carried back to Cologne - Went to see the Cathedral & bought a box of Narinal [?] Cologne by advice of the guide who I afterwards found had imposed upon me & taken me to one of the many "pretenders to the name." We took an 11 o'clock train to Wesel a pretty little Prussian town with a Hotel less expensive & better than almost any we have found abroad. Delicious brown bread & butter & chocolate - everything good of its kind & the proprietor a gentlemany sensible sort of fellow.

The sun is in the west
The stars are on the sea,
Each kindly hand I've prest, [sic] -
And now farewell to thee!
Our cup of parting's done -
Tis the darkest I can sip,
And I've pledged them, everyone,
With my heart & with my lip -

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