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COLOGNE .-- THE TRACES OF THE ROMAN YOKE .-- THE CHURCH OF ST.
MARIA .-- TREVYLYAN'S REFLECTIONS ON THE MONASTIC LIFE .-- THE TOMB OF THE THREE KINGS .-- AN EVENING EXCURSION ON THE RHINE.
ROME--magnificent Rome! wherever the pilgrim wends, the traces of thy dominion greet his eyes.

Still in the heart of the bold German race is graven the print of the eagle's claws; and amidst the haunted regions of the Rhine we pause to wonder at the great monuments of the Italian yoke.
At Cologne our travellers rested for some days.

They were in the city to which the camp of Marcus Agrippa had given birth; that spot had resounded with the armed tread of the legions of Trajan.

In that city, Vitellius, Sylvanus, were proclaimed emperors.