The Rhine, its valley and history . withreference to the succession to the Spanish throne. Themedieval Duchy of Luxemburg stretched across allthe western heights of the Schist Upland from theMoselle to the Lower Meuse, thus occupying theinterval between the Duchy of Lorraine representingthe Upper Lotharingia, and the Duchy of Brabant,the most direct representative of the Lower Lotha-ringia. But when in 1830 Belgium was separated fromthe kingdom of the Netherlands, Luxemburg wasdivided into two portions, roughly corresponding tothe northward or Meuse-ward, and southward orMoselle-ward drainages
The Rhine, its valley and history . withreference to the succession to the Spanish throne. Themedieval Duchy of Luxemburg stretched across allthe western heights of the Schist Upland from theMoselle to the Lower Meuse, thus occupying theinterval between the Duchy of Lorraine representingthe Upper Lotharingia, and the Duchy of Brabant,the most direct representative of the Lower Lotha-ringia. But when in 1830 Belgium was separated fromthe kingdom of the Netherlands, Luxemburg wasdivided into two portions, roughly corresponding tothe northward or Meuse-ward, and southward orMoselle-ward drainages from the upland; and whilethe northern portion became a province of the king-dom of Belgium, the southern portion remained underthe rule of the King of the Netherlands. At the acces-sion of the present Queen of the Netherlands theGrand Duchy was separated by virtue of the Salic law,and Luxemburg is one of the few remaining littlesovereignties into which most of the Rhineland wasdivided before the time of the French THE RED HOUSE, TRUCK iTRICVK The Moselle and the Upper MenseBut the railways, the post office and the customs areadministered by Germany. Below Trier the Moselle enters its gorge, which inone respect presents a striking contrast with that ofthe Rhine. From Bingen to Bonn the course of theRhine exhibits only two or three considerable bendssuch as to affect the course, not only of the river, but alsoof the valley. The Moselle on the other hand betweenTrier and Coblenz exhibits a series of the most re-markable convolutions, almost every one of which isfollowed, not merely by the river, but also by thegorge in the bottom of which it runs. In other words,the valley of the Moselle here perpetuates the courseof the river when it flowed high above its presentlevel on the surface of the plateau. As a consequenceof this intricacy and of the resulting great prolonga-tion of the waterway, the navigation of the Mosellebetween Trier and Coblenz is insignificant as
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