Strasburgh
The idea here is that Victor would travel northeast to Basel on the confines of Switzerland,
thence follow the Rhine to Strasbourg, where he would be met by
Clerval who, suspending his course of studies at the University of
Ingolstadt, would have travelled west across Germany to join him. The two
would then proceed north by boat through Germany into Holland where the
Rhine empties into the North Sea
just beyond Rotterdam. This is
essentially the return route followed by Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley in
their 1814 excursion
memorialized in A History of a Six Weeks' Tour: see the entries for
Switzerland and Holland.
