. Germany . auerland,the Harz, and the Thuringian range, at that timethe northern rocky coast of Germany. To thesouth of the Danube was blue sea. Salzburg laydeep in the bosom of the waters as in the womb offuturity. Before a western gale, the billows rollingover Vienna raged in the jaws of a narrow straitbetween it and Pressburg, where they clashed withthe tide of another sea. A change took place in the period of the Liasdeposits. The channel of communication with theNorth Sea, over Coburg, was closed. Bambergrocks stood above the sea. Cologne lay still inthe deep undreamt. The Black Forest r
. Germany . auerland,the Harz, and the Thuringian range, at that timethe northern rocky coast of Germany. To thesouth of the Danube was blue sea. Salzburg laydeep in the bosom of the waters as in the womb offuturity. Before a western gale, the billows rollingover Vienna raged in the jaws of a narrow straitbetween it and Pressburg, where they clashed withthe tide of another sea. A change took place in the period of the Liasdeposits. The channel of communication with theNorth Sea, over Coburg, was closed. Bambergrocks stood above the sea. Cologne lay still inthe deep undreamt. The Black Forest ran as apeninsula parallel with the Vosges ; nay, it was inreality an island like Sumatra, but was cut offfrom the mainland by only a silver streak far nar- THE NATURAL DIVISIONS. rower than the straits of Malacca. But still theHclveto-Germanic Sea continued to roll fromBesan9on and Geneva to Vienna and Pressburg. Next came the Jurassic period, when those vastlimestone deposits were laid which were afterwards. 2. The Jurasic Sea. tilted up to form the Swiss, the Swabian, and theFranconian Jura. The islands of the Trias oceanhad run together like quicksilver, and become acontinent. The waters that washed from Genevato Ratisbon and Vienna had contracted in width GERMANY. but had torn a wide throat to the east over Moraviaand Hungary. The scene again changes. The chalk ocean iscasting down its white particles. This great de-pression must have been of very long continuance,since in Western Europe it sufficed for the pro-duction of nearly a thousand feet in thickness ofchalk, a rock which, being composed almost en-tirely of microscopic shells, is necessarily of ex-tremely slow growth. In Germany, however, thechalk sea was of far less importance than else-where. It occupied the basin of Bohemia, andthere is evidence of its having had a smaller basinabout Ratisbon. But it occupied all the greatNorth German plain, and left its deposits fromMaestricht to Miinster. It reappears at Hanover
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