The Rhine, its valley and history . nd towards Zurich andLucerne. Basle became a free city of the Empire, andin the sixteenth century leagued itself with the SwissConfederation. Northward of the Gate of Burgundy began theRoman Province of the First Germany, contained be-tween the parallel frontiers of the Rhine and theVosges, and the next great Roman station was at Stras-burg, beside the northern end of the Higher the Zorn tributary of the Rhine cleaves a wayat a height only 1,600 feet above the sea throughthe western bounding edge of the rift valley: Throughthis gorge was brought
The Rhine, its valley and history . nd towards Zurich andLucerne. Basle became a free city of the Empire, andin the sixteenth century leagued itself with the SwissConfederation. Northward of the Gate of Burgundy began theRoman Province of the First Germany, contained be-tween the parallel frontiers of the Rhine and theVosges, and the next great Roman station was at Stras-burg, beside the northern end of the Higher the Zorn tributary of the Rhine cleaves a wayat a height only 1,600 feet above the sea throughthe western bounding edge of the rift valley: Throughthis gorge was brought a Roman road from Metz toStrasburg, past the station of Tres Taberna;, whichhas become the modern Zabern, whence the passagethrough the Vosges is known to the French as theTrouee de Zaverne. Castle ruins crown the hills oneither side of the entry from the low ground, andbetween them, the road, the canal, and the railway nowpass upward together. Strasburg became the seat of afamous bishopric, but the citizens, like those of Basle,90. FREIBURG-IM-BREISGAU. The Upper German cR^ineexpelled their bishop from his secular jurisdiction with-in the walls, and left to him only the neighbouringcountryside, although his spiritual authority still heldwithin the city. After Roman times, the Allemanni, or Swabians,occupied in the south-western corner of Germany thebasin of the Aar, the banks of the Lake of Constance,the uppermost basin of the Danube, the basin of theNeckar, and the rift valley of the Rhine northward toBaden Baden, but not to Heidelberg. Their frontier isroughly marked to-day by the boundary between theFrench and German languages, which follows thewater-parting of the Vosges, except that in one valleyhead on the German side, where is the little town ofMarkkirch, French is spoken. The plain of Alsace,which was thus Allemannic, was divided into the NordGau of Strasburg, and the Sund Gau of Miilhausen,while the Breis Gau was the name of the territory onthe other side of the river
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