o’clock.  A preacher was in the principal pulpit; while a tolerably numerous congregation was gathered around him.  He preached, of course, in the German language, and used much action.  As he became more and more animated, he necessarily became warmer, and pulled off a black cap—­which, till then, he had kept upon his head:  the zeal and piety of the congregation at the same time seeming to increase with the accelerated motions of the preacher.  In other more retired parts, solitary devotees were seen—­silent, and absorbed in prayer.  Among these, I shall not easily forget the head and the physiognomical expression of one old man—­who, having been supported by crutches, which lay by the side of him—­appeared to have come for the last time to offer his orisons to heaven.  The light shone full upon his bald head and elevated countenance; which latter indicated a genuineness of piety, and benevolence, of disposition, not to be soured... even by the most-bitter of worldly disappointments!  It seemed as if the old man were taking leave of this life, in full confidence of the rewards which await the righteous beyond the grave.  Not a creature was near him but myself;—­when, on the completion of his devotions, finding that those who had attended him thither were not at hand to lead him away—­he seemed to cast an asking eye of assistance upon me:  nor did he look twice before that assistance was granted.  I helped to raise him up; but, ere he could bring my hand in contact with his lips, to express his thankfulness—­his friends ... apparently his daughter, and two grandchildren ... arrived—­and receiving his benediction, quietly, steadily, and securely, led him forth from the cathedral.  No pencil ... no pen ... can do justice to the entire effect of this touching picture.

So much for the living.  A word or two now for the dead.  Of course this latter alludes to the MONUMENTS of the more distinguished characters once resident in and near the metropolis.  Among these, doubtless the most elaborate is that of the Emperor Frederick III.—­in the florid gothic style, surmounted by a tablet, filled with coat-armour, or heraldic shields.  Some of the mural monuments are very curious, and among them are several of the early part of the sixteenth century—­which represent the chins and even mouths of females, entirely covered by drapery:  such as is even now to be seen ...and such as we saw on descending from the Vosges; But among these monuments—­both for absolute and relative antiquity—­none will appear to the curious eye of an antiquary so precious as that of the head of the ARCHITECT of THE CATHEDRAL, whose name was Pilgram. This head is twice seen—­first, on the wall of the south side aisle, a good deal above the spectator’s eye, and therefore in a foreshortened manner—­as the following representation of it testifies;[141]

[Illustration:  S. Fresman.]

The second representation of it is in one of the heads in the hexagonal pulpit—­in the nave, and in which the preacher was holding forth as before mentioned.  Some say that these heads represent one and the same person; but I was told that they were designated for those of the master and apprentice: the former being the apprentice, and the latter the master.