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Title: Germany
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
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Publisher: London : Low
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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chen reaches 4640 feet. Theforms of the mountains are domelike, and some, asthe Feldberg, are of little dignity. Others of lesselevation, especially the Kandel above Waldkirch,are of striking beauty. The silver pine has madeway for the more valuable beech, but it is stillgrown in large quantities, along with other firs, formasts, and the poles are sent into Holland in floats. The Black Forest range gradually declines inheight as it extends northwards, and beyondthe Murg loses its name, and only shows as ahilly range from the plain of the Rhine aboveDurlach and Pforzheim. Further north it sinksstill lower, and is represented only by undulatingground covered with tillage about 1200 feet high,and ceases entirely at the Neckar. Beyond theNeckar, the Odenwald is the continuation of thesame chain; this attains its highest elevation inMelibocus, 1680 feet. By Darmstadt it diescompletely away in the Mainz basin. Three natural passes have been used sinceremote times for crossing from the Rhine
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HEIDELBERG. Page Si. THE MID-MOUNTAIN REGION Si valley to the Danube over the Black Forest.The Pforzheim depression, the Kinzig, and theDreisam valleys. The Black Forest railway now runs up theKinzig Thai, and by a piece of marvellous en-gineering rises in a series of zigzags above Tri-berg to the plateau in which are the sources ofthe Danube. The importance of this line is dueto the St. Gothards tunnel, which constitutes ita main artery of commerce between the west ofGermany and Switzerland and Italy. From astrategical point of view, this line is one of highimportance, as, should the frontier at Belfort bethreatened, and the Upper Rhine lines be broken,troops would be poured down on the threatenedsouth-west from the heart of Germany by means ofthis line, and those which are being brought intocommunication with it. The pass of the Dreisamwill also probably before long be traversed byrails. The Black Forest is peopled by the descen-dants of the Alemanni; but whether by that titleone So

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