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Still , the situation was novel enough to be exciting , and he lay awake , thinking of it , for several hours that night . But in the morning Sir William appeared as usual , and probably , on reflection , had decided not to do any desperate deed . At seven o'clock the excursionists returned by train to Frankfurt . It was decided then that , as Wiesbaden , one of the celebrated German watering-places , was only a repetition of Baden-Baden and Homburg , the company should proceed direct to Mayence , where they arrived by nine o'clock . As the students were crossing the bridge to Mayence , they obtained a full view of one of the great rafts of timber which float down the Rhine , and of which Professor Mapps had spoken to them at Dort , in Holland . However , it was much smaller than those of which they had heard , and they hoped to see another . The students were not disposed to `` do '' Mayence , being too impatient to witness the glories of the Rhine .