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of St.. Peter: this is the church that R was baptized in from thence we went to see the Cathedral which is not finished but is the most beautiful building of the kind that I ever saw we saw the tomb of the three kings & the treasure but it was growing dark we returned to the Hotel - had tea - went to bed early_____________ Left Cologne rather ? on foot to get to the steamer Queen Victoria by which we came up the Rhine to which would have been very charming it it had not began to rain at about 2 o'clock & continued the whole evening it was upon this day that I first beheld a castle