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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, 355 inland. Its deptli is considerable, amounting even, close to the town, to 30 feet. Its entrance is exposed to nortli-easterly winds, but vessels witbin tbe bay are perfectly sbcltered. These advantages, joined to tbe facilities for defence, very naturally attracted tbe attention of tbe German Admiralty, and Kiel bas become tbe principal naval station on tbe Baltic, witb docks (at EUerbeck) and arsenal, Friedi'ichsort, on a promontory, is tbe principal work of defence of tbe place, wbicb Fig. 205.—Alskn and S()X))i;KBURft. Scale 1 : 500,000.
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Depth ÔI Fathoms 10 Miles. is inferior to Wilbelmsbafen, on tbe North Sea, only in one respect—it is some- times closed by ice. Eckernfôrde (4,993 inhabitants), to the north-west of Kiel, has an excellent roadstead, which is exposed, however, to easterly and north-easterly winds. Schles- u-ig (14,546 inhabitants), at the head of the fiord of the Schlei, has lost nearly the whole of its maritime trade, owing to the siltiug up of its harbour. In tbe Middle Ages the merchandise brought in ships to Scbleswig was thence carried over-

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