connected with Brandenburg on the other side of the world; but IS
unconsciously more so than any other of the then sons of Adam.
He is the lineal ancestor, twentieth in direct ascent, of the
little Boy now sleeping in his cradle at Berlin; let him wait till
nineteen generations, valiantly like Conrad, have done their part,
and gone out, Conrad will find he is come to this! A man's destiny
is strange always; and never wants for miracles, or will want,
though it sometimes may for eyes to discern them.

Hohenzollern lies far south in SCHWABEN (Suabia), on the sunward
slope of the Rauhe-Alp Country; no great way north from Constance
and its Lake; but well aloft, near the springs of the Danube;
its back leaning on the Black Forest; it is perhaps definable as
the southern summit of that same huge old Hercynian Wood, which is
still called the SCHWARZWALD (Black Forest), though now
comparatively bare of trees. ["There are still considerable
spottings of wood (pine mainly, and 'black' enough); HOLZ-HANDEL
(timber-trade) still a considerable branch of business there;--and
on the streams of the country are cunning contrivances noticeable,
for floating down the article into the Neckar river, and thence
into the Rhine and to Holland." ( Tourist's Note. italic>)] Fanciful Dryasdust, doing a little etymology, will tell
you the name ZOLLERN is equivalent to TOLLERY or Place of Tolls.
Whereby HOHENZOLLERN comes to mean the HIGH or Upper TOLLERY;--
and gives one the notion of antique pedlers climbing painfully,
out of Italy and the Swiss valleys, thus far; unstrapping their
pack-horses here, and chaffering in unknown dialect about TOLL.
Poor souls;--it may be so, but we do not know, nor shall it
concern us. This only is known: That a human kindred, probably of
some talent for coercing anarchy and guiding mankind, had,