. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Inhabitants to a Square Mile sa 52 - lOi tOi-155 (IS5-S07 207-21)0 200-311 sei-iU Oiei-il valley. Many of the rocks are grotesquely shaped. One of them, the Konigstein, is crowned by a fortress absolutely impregnable. Another, the Lilienstein, occupies a peninsula on the left bank of the river, and forms perhaps the most beautiful feature of what is not very appropriately termed Saxon Switzerland. Some of the rocks have the shape of obelisks, one of the most curious of these being the Prebischer Kegel, a wonderful pile commanding a wide horizon of woods an
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Inhabitants to a Square Mile sa 52 - lOi tOi-155 (IS5-S07 207-21)0 200-311 sei-iU Oiei-il valley. Many of the rocks are grotesquely shaped. One of them, the Konigstein, is crowned by a fortress absolutely impregnable. Another, the Lilienstein, occupies a peninsula on the left bank of the river, and forms perhaps the most beautiful feature of what is not very appropriately termed Saxon Switzerland. Some of the rocks have the shape of obelisks, one of the most curious of these being the Prebischer Kegel, a wonderful pile commanding a wide horizon of woods and rocks. The Bastei, to the east of Wehlen, is no less remarkable. The cliffs along the Elbe above Pirna are being actively quarried, and the stone is exported as far as Hamburg, which to a large extent is built with it. Quite recently a huge mass of rock, 2G0 feet in height, which had been undermined by the quarrymen, tumbled into the river, and intenuptcd its
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