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control navigation, but once a toll station. Here is the whirl-pool; [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] the Bingen Loch. Below Bingen the valley narrows, and the heavily-wooded slopes rise high, and close to the river. On the right, just opposite Bingen, are beautifully terraced vineyards clear to the top. The terraces are built with walls of rocks. The next stop is at Assmannshausen, and opposite this are the ruins of an old castle,- [[insertion]] Burg [[/insertion]] Rheinstein (see postal)
I tried snap-shots at Rheinstein (photo 23) and the vineyards opposite Bingen (photo 24). We also passed the castle of Falkenburg on the left.
On the right all along, are steep slopes, with vineyards.
[[strikethrough]] Above [[/strikethrough]] Below Falkenhausen we passed the castle Sonneck.  In nearly all (or all) of the cases seen the castles are distinctly

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below the tops of the bluffs or hills.
The Sonneck Castle ^[[insertion]] (see postal card)  [[/insertion]] is beautiful, with its setting of the forest-covered mountain.
Schloss Heimburg is lower down, - both on the left side. The slopes around are cultivated, and the village strings along at the base. The walls are ivy-covered.
Above the village of Rheindiebach rises the castle of Fürstenberg. It is about half way up the slope, and has a large tower.
On the left the slopes farther on are cultivated.  Just above Bacharach rises the castle of Stahleck. Tried a snap-shot = photo 7. Also photo 8 at the vine covered hills below Bacharach, with ledges.  Below Bacharach more rocky ledges appear, but every bit of available surface is cultivated.
The next stop is at Caub.  Here the