The international geography . industries ;Solingen and Remscheid, with iron and steel manufactures ; and north ofthe Ruhr valley, Essen, with Krupps famous cast steel works, and furthereast Dortmund, a centre of iron and coal mining on the edge of the Haarand the seat of a great iron industry, particularly the construction ofmachinery. The Hessian Uplands.—The narrow Hesse and Weser Uplandslying east of the Rhine Highlands, are unified by the Weser river systembut fall naturally into two divisions. That of Hesse to the south is higher,with masses of hard basalt standing out from the prevailing
The international geography . industries ;Solingen and Remscheid, with iron and steel manufactures ; and north ofthe Ruhr valley, Essen, with Krupps famous cast steel works, and furthereast Dortmund, a centre of iron and coal mining on the edge of the Haarand the seat of a great iron industry, particularly the construction ofmachinery. The Hessian Uplands.—The narrow Hesse and Weser Uplandslying east of the Rhine Highlands, are unified by the Weser river systembut fall naturally into two divisions. That of Hesse to the south is higher,with masses of hard basalt standing out from the prevailing Triassicrocks and forming the highest parts of the district in the Vogelsberg(2,533 feet) and the Rhon mountain (3,146 feet). The river Fuldarises in the Rhon, and unites at Miinden {, mouth, called after theconfluence) with the Weser, which flows from the south-western slope ofthe Thiiringerwald, and is called as far as Miinden by the Upper Germandialect name of Werra. The Eder flows east to the Fulda from the slopes. The German Empire 289 of the Rhine Highlands, and the Diemel north-east to the Weser belowMiinden. Being without mineral wealth Hesse has perforce developed asa purely agricultural district; until the thirteenth century it could onlyboast of small villages, and even yet there are scarcely any but smallmarket towns. The tw^o famous mediaeval abbey-towns of Fulda andHersfeld stand on the Fulda; and lower down the same river Kassel, thecapital of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, is built on a fertile ex-pansion of the valley, an important meeting-place of traffic from thenorth and south, and from Thuringia on the east. The flat dome-likemass of the Vogelsberg, together with the fruit-growing plain of theWetterau stretching from the bed of the Lahn at Giessen to Frankfort-on-the-Main, forms the North German half of the grand duchy of Hesse,^he Principality of Waldeck stretches from the Eder to the Diemelwest of Kassel. The Weser Uplands.—The varied sce
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