The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 THUEINGIA AND THE IIARZ. 261 as the intermediary of the commerce carried on between Frankfort and the valley of the Weser. Hersfekl (6,929 inhabitants) is the only other large town on the Fulda as far down as Cassel. The Upper Werra, the head-stream of the Weser, takes its course through the Saxon duchies of Coburg-Gotha and Meiningen before it enters Hesse, Ilildburghausen (5,162 inhabitants) is the principal town near its source. Meinin- gen (9,521 inhabitants) enjoys some importance as the cap
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 THUEINGIA AND THE IIARZ. 261 as the intermediary of the commerce carried on between Frankfort and the valley of the Weser. Hersfekl (6,929 inhabitants) is the only other large town on the Fulda as far down as Cassel. The Upper Werra, the head-stream of the Weser, takes its course through the Saxon duchies of Coburg-Gotha and Meiningen before it enters Hesse, Ilildburghausen (5,162 inhabitants) is the principal town near its source. Meinin- gen (9,521 inhabitants) enjoys some importance as the capital of a duchy, but is inferior in industry to its neighbour Snhl (10,513 inhabitants), a Prussian town, in the midst of the mountains, and not far from the crest of the Thuringian Forest. Suhl has many iron mines in its vicinity, and formerly it deserved to be Fig. 149.—Cassel and its Environs. Scale 1 : 100,000. '»° 2j * of r, 2 Miles. called the ' arsenal ' of Germany. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it supplied vast quantities of armour, and during the Seven Years' 'War furnished both Austria and Prussia with swords. It still manufactures arms of every description, including rifles, though far inferior now to Essen and Solingen. Sehmalkalden (6,185 inhabitants), like Suhl, lies in a tributary valley of the 'Werra, and owes its prosperity to its iron works. The outer physiognomy of the town has undergone but little change since 1531, in which year the Pro- testant princes met there to combine against Charles V. There are salt works at Sehmalkalden, but those of Salzungen (3,724 inhabitants), on the Werra, are far more important. Near the latter is the favourite watering-place of Liehen- stein.
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