...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city...

...and persons of the unwashed laborers and beggars distil a reeking compound of still more disagreeable exhalations. Coleridge says of Cologne : " I counted...stenches, All well defined — and several stinks j" but Shanghai, in its horrid foulness, would be flattered by such a description. I never go within...

...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city...

...us that made us stagger as though we had been hit by grape-shot.* We groped our way through void * " I counted two and seventy stenches — All well defined and several stinks." Coleridge on Cologne. But the foulest part of Cologne is clean, pure, and sweet, spaces left by some...

...the full number (though we counted a good many) of the abominations of the city. Coleridge says — I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks. But in his time most likely they had not the fountains or streams of Eau de Cologne running in the streets....

...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city...

...and persons of the unwashed laborers and beggars distil a reeking compound of still more disagreeable exhalations. Coleridge says of Cologne : " I counted...stinks ;" but Shanghai, in its horrid foulness, would be flattered by such a description. I never go within its walls but with a shudder, and the taint of...

...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city...

...monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks ! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Hhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city...

...and persons of the unwashed laborers and beggars distil a reeking compound of still more disagreeable exhalations. Coleridge says of Cologne : "I counted two and seventy stenches. All well defined—and several stinks; " but Shanghai, in its horrid fouluess, would be flattered by such a...