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[[underlined]] July 25, 1914 [[/underlined]] - Saturday.
I left for Mainz at 9:51 a.m., and Paul and Bertha will follow later. It is cloudy, but the clouds are somewhat broken, and the sun occasionally appears.
The country at first is flat.
A big sturdy-looking fellow just came in and carefully closed the window, although it is warm!
Most of these people have no conception of the value of fresh air.
Along this plain or valley, there is quite a bit of forest, both coniferous and deciduous, - probably on sandy soils.
We followed the broad valley to the Main, and down its valley to Mainz, where we crossed the Rhine. I changed at Mainz, after checking my suitcase, and went on

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to Heidesheim, which we reached at 11:14 am. Germans on the train were discussing the possibility of war with England, and they expressed the opinion that this is a favorable time for Germany, because England is now having its Ulster troubles.
I took a lunch at the 
Gasthaus in Heidelsheim. An old man, who was at the Gasthaus, accompanied me for a short distance, to the sand banks on the way to Budenheim.
Just out of the village, east, there is a sand-bank, just south of the road which runs just south of the R.R. My informant says the station at Heidelsheim is 95 m. above the sea, and this sand-bank [[underlined]] no. 1 [[/underlined]] is 5 or 6 meters higher. It looks to me about 50 feet above the general valley.