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SdiWITZIVGE V
Schwetzingen is situated in a spot ill favoured by na-
ture, but by the assistance of art turned into a magnifi-
cent garden. It was originally a market-town, but now it
is a town of 2700 inliab., with a palace and charming
gardens. It is 2 hours distant from Heidelberg, by a
straight road or a causey, once planted with mulberry-
trees , and connected with the Carlsruh causey. A
second road , th o’ not a shorter one , takes you across
the fieldmark from Heidelberg, by the way of the
villages of Eppelheim and Plankstadt, to Schwetzin-
gen. The site of Schwetzingen docs not strike you par-
ticularly, il you except the prospect, from the plain, of
the neighbouring mountains. The sandy soil may even
be pronounced to be rather poor, though the industrious
inhabitants avail themselves of it as well as possible for
the culture of hops and tabacco, the articles, by which
they subsist. Schwetzingen is % league distant from the
Rhine. Altrip (alta ripa) a village well known, where
Roman remains are found daily, lies on the other bank
of the Rhine, right opposite. We observe this, as it is
probable, that the Romans used to cross the Rhine here.
This corresponds with the opinion of many scholars who
here look for the Solicinium, quoted by Ammianus itlar-
celllnus, near which the Roman emperor Valentinianus, in
368, a. C. fought a battle against the Alemanni. There
are, indeed, others maintaining this battle had been fought
at Sinzheim, others at Sulzbach, on the Bergstrasse etc.
We are inclined to decide for the opinion of Ammianus,
Schwetzingen is situated in a spot ill favoured by na-
ture, but by the assistance of art turned into a magnifi-
cent garden. It was originally a market-town, but now it
is a town of 2700 inliab., with a palace and charming
gardens. It is 2 hours distant from Heidelberg, by a
straight road or a causey, once planted with mulberry-
trees , and connected with the Carlsruh causey. A
second road , th o’ not a shorter one , takes you across
the fieldmark from Heidelberg, by the way of the
villages of Eppelheim and Plankstadt, to Schwetzin-
gen. The site of Schwetzingen docs not strike you par-
ticularly, il you except the prospect, from the plain, of
the neighbouring mountains. The sandy soil may even
be pronounced to be rather poor, though the industrious
inhabitants avail themselves of it as well as possible for
the culture of hops and tabacco, the articles, by which
they subsist. Schwetzingen is % league distant from the
Rhine. Altrip (alta ripa) a village well known, where
Roman remains are found daily, lies on the other bank
of the Rhine, right opposite. We observe this, as it is
probable, that the Romans used to cross the Rhine here.
This corresponds with the opinion of many scholars who
here look for the Solicinium, quoted by Ammianus itlar-
celllnus, near which the Roman emperor Valentinianus, in
368, a. C. fought a battle against the Alemanni. There
are, indeed, others maintaining this battle had been fought
at Sinzheim, others at Sulzbach, on the Bergstrasse etc.
We are inclined to decide for the opinion of Ammianus,