The Rhine, its valley and history . andthe ear. These same Ziihringen founded in the next twogenerations successively Freiburg in Switzerland andBerne. They were rulers also of the Sund Gau on theother side of the Rhine, although Mulhausen itselfbecame a free city of the Empire and from theReformation to the French Revolution was leaguedlike Basle with the Swiss. When the Zahringen familycame to an end late in the Middle Ages, the Haps-burgs took their place, and it was not until the timeof the French Revolution that the Hapsburg dominion,expelled much earlier from Switzerland, was finallyexcl
The Rhine, its valley and history . andthe ear. These same Ziihringen founded in the next twogenerations successively Freiburg in Switzerland andBerne. They were rulers also of the Sund Gau on theother side of the Rhine, although Mulhausen itselfbecame a free city of the Empire and from theReformation to the French Revolution was leaguedlike Basle with the Swiss. When the Zahringen familycame to an end late in the Middle Ages, the Haps-burgs took their place, and it was not until the timeof the French Revolution that the Hapsburg dominion,expelled much earlier from Switzerland, was finallyexcluded from the Breisgau. In the neighbourhood of Strasbursr, there descendtowards the Rhine not only the Zorn of Zabern, butalso the Kinzig and the Breusch, the most consider-able directly Rhineward streams of the Black Forestand of the Vosges. Strasburg was, therefore, a naturalmarket centre for the middle portion of the UpperRhine valley. To-day the Black Forest railway, pic-turesquely engineered, is carried from Strasburg, past92. OLD TOWER, FREIBURG-IM-BREISGAU. The Upper German T{hineOffenburg and up the Kinzig valley, past the waterfallof Triberg,to the reverse slope of the mountains, wherethrough the uppermost valley of the Danube it findsa way south-eastward to Schaffhausen and is a light railway also across the Black Forestfrom Freiburg eastward through the gorge of the Hoh-len Thai to the Upper Danube. The railways, however,of the Kinzig and Hohlen valleys present steep gradi-ents, and the Orient Express on its way from Paris toVienna and Constantinople, having approached Stras-burg by Zabern, turns northward and only finds an exitfrom the Rhine valley through the eastern range in rearof Carlsruhe, where the mountains of the Black Foresthave sunk to merely hill level and easy passages leadover to Pforzheim in the valley of the Enz, which istributary to the Neckar. The mountain fronts overlooking the Rhine plainof Baden and Alsace are crowned from point
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