EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN ENGLISH.
The accompanying specimens of foreign English you may perhaps consider
worth a corner among the minor curiosities of literature:--
_Basle._--
"Bains ordinaires et artificiels, tenu par B. Sigemund, Dr. in
medicine, Basle. In this new erected establishment, which the Owner
recommends best to all foreigners are to have,--Ordinary and artful
baths, russia and sulphury bagnios, pumpings, artful mineral waters,
gauze lemonads, fournished apartments for patients."
_Cologne._ Title-page in lithograph.
"_Remembrance on the Cathedral of Cologne._--A collection of his most
remarkable monumens, so as of the most artful ornamous and precious
hilts of his renaconed tresory. Draconed and lithographed by Gerhardt
Levy Elkan and Hallersch, collected by Gerhd. Emans."
_Augsburg_, Drei Mohren Hotel. Entry in travellers' book.
"January 28. 1815.--His Grace Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, &c.
&c. &c. Great honour arrived at the beginning of this year to the three
Moors: this illustrious warrior, whose glorious atchievements, which,
cradled in Asia, have filled Europe with his renown, descended in it.
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