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Title: Alsace-Lorraine; past, present, and future
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Phillipson, Coleman, 1875-1958
Subjects: Alsace-Lorraine question Alsace (France) -- History Lorraine (France) -- History
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin, ltd
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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which it is separatedby the Rhine ; on the north and north-east by theBavarian Palatinate, the Prussian Rhine Province,and Luxemburg ; on the west by France. The area of the provinces as ceded in 1871 is 5,605square miles, that is less than one-tenth of the areaArea of °^ England and Wales, or a little less thanAlsace- the area of Yorkshire. The total areaacquired by Germany constituted nearly thewhole of the former Alsace, together with aboutone-fifth of the former Lorraine ; the annexed areaof Alsace alone being 3,344 square miles. The maxi-mum length of Alsace-Lorraine from north to southis 145 miles, the maximum breadth from east towest is 105 miles, and the minimum breadth, at theline drawn through Schlettstadt, is 24 miles. The configuration of the country is varied andbeautiful.1 There are mountains and hills, valleys, 1 As to the surface and soils of Alsace-Lorraine, see an article by Miss M.I. Newbigin, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. xxxiv (1918), pp. 121seq. 34
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Sketch-map of Alsace and Eastern Lorraine. The oblique shading indicates the more elevated areas, while the patches of vertical shading show, ;quite diagranimatically, the chief deposits of loess. Scale about i: 1,500,000. boundary in 1914. hhhh boundary in 1870. (In part afterBarri.) DESCRIPTION 37 rivers, plains, tablelands, lakes, forests ; the hills beingwell wooded with fir, beech, and oak. The salientphysical features may be divided roughly configura-into three classes: mountain land, plain, tion- and plateau. First, the mountain land occupies thewestern half of Alsace, and consists of the Vosgesrange, which runs in a northerly direction from thegap or pass of Belfort (trouee de Belfort). A con-spicuous peak of the Vosges is the Ballon dAlsace,4,085 feet high. Secondly, between the Vosges rangeand its sharp eastern slopes and the Rhine lies aplain of remarkable fertility occupying the easternportion of Alsace. Thirdly, in the north-west thereis a great undulating plateau, which

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