The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . nt yieldsargentiferous lead (Villefort), slates, and mineral watera,among which thuse of Bagnols are most frequented. Theexportation of its antimony, manganese, marble, andlithographic stones is undeveloped as yet. The tufa ofMende is well adapted for building purposes. The manu-factures are unimportant. The population in 1876 was138,319, having decreased by 5000 since 1801, an
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . nt yieldsargentiferous lead (Villefort), slates, and mineral watera,among which thuse of Bagnols are most frequented. Theexportation of its antimony, manganese, marble, andlithographic stones is undeveloped as yet. The tufa ofMende is well adapted for building purposes. The manu-factures are unimportant. The population in 1876 was138,319, having decreased by 5000 since 1801, and by astill greater number since the end of the 17th are about 20,000 Protestants. The arrondissementsare three (Mende, Florae, and Marvejols), the cantonstwenty-four, and the communes one hundred and ninety-six. .. LUBECK, a free city of Germany, situated in 53° 32N. lat. and 10° 41 E. long., on a gentle ridge between therivers Trave and Wakenitz, 10 miles of the mouth ofthe former, and 40 miles by rail of Hamburg. OldLiibeck, the chief emporium of the Slav inhabitants ofWagria (East Holstein), stood on the left bank of the Trave,where it is joined by the river Sehwartau, and was ulti-. , ?CtiimborassoTowe, Custom St Jamess Church. Plan of Lubeck. Hospital zum HeUigen 12. St Peters Church. 13. Chuix:h of St £gidiiu. 14. Church of St Anae. 15. Orphanace. mately destroyed in 1138. Five years later Count Adol-phus II. of Holstein founded new Liibeck, a few milesfarther up, on the peninsula Buku, where the deep currentof the Trave is joined on the right by the Wakenitz, thobroad emissary of the Lake of Ratzeburg. A most excel-lent harbour, well sheltered against pirates, it becamealmost at once a successful competitor for the couimerce of 32 L U B E C K tie Baltic. Its foundation coincided with the beginning ofthe general advance of the Low Gorman tribes of Flanders,Friesland, and VVestjihalia along the southern shores of thegreat inland sea,—
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