Excerpt from Die Harzreise, Und, Das Buch Le Grand The region of the Hartz Mountains described in Heine's harzreise is one of the most interesting in Germ any. The mountain-range covers some 1350 square miles in northwestern Germany, between the Elbe and the Weser, and culminates in the famous peak of the Brocken, nearly 4000 feet above the level of the sea. Its scenery is romantically lovely, and the Brocken-peak particularly is the centre of a thousand quaint and fantastic legends, some of which Heine sketches with his magic pencil. The singular optical phenomenon of the Spectre of the Brocken is seen on this mountain and Goethe has immortalized in his Faust some of the popular superstitions connected with the neighborhood. The vicinity of the mountain range to Gottingen renders the Hartz excursions an easy and delightful temptation to the Gottingen students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.