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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ly limited tothe county of Neufchatel. Iron is saidto be found at thirteen points within thelimits of Switzerland, gold in threeplaces, silver in twenty-two, copper intwenty-nine, and lead in twenty-seven,but in no place is the yield of these min-erals a source of great profit. Onlythirty-five thousand tons of iron orewere raised from the mines in 1870. 102 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Bituminous and block coal are wanting,and anthracite is found to only a limitedextent in the county of Valais. Thereare some tertiary and quaternary for-mations resembling coal, but even ofthese poor materials only about six thou-sand tons were raised in 1881. Thesources for the producti(^n of artificial value within the limit of an insignifi-cant weight. It is only in recent daysthat the Swiss have given much atten-tion to statistics, but we are now able tosee how the balances of trades stand asbetween Switzerland on the one side andGermany, France, Italy, Austria, Bel-gium, Russia, and several of the minor
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bWlbS INUUSTKIES—S.MITHV OK LANGNAU heat are therefore limited. Wood sup ply and peat are the chief materials usedfor this purpose. A small amount ofsalt is procured in Aargau. But notwithstanding this underground poverty, the Swiss are manufacturers. Thev have a genius for the Swiss mantifac- ^ . tures; adverse productioU of formS, CS- balance of trade. .,-,,. n r pecially those small lormswhich are capable of compassing a great states. The balance of trade is againstthe Swiss, though not seriously. Thusthe trade with Germany is, importationstwo hundred and forty-nine millionfrancs, against an exportation of onehundred and fifty-seven million francs.The only two great countries betweenwhich and Switzerland the imports ofthe latter are less than the exports inaggregate value are the United States THE S J J VSS. —ED UCA TION. 103 and Great Britain. With the UnitedStates the Swiss trade shows a balancein recent years of about eighteen mil-lion of importations against seventy-eight m

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