The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 170 GEEMANY. the Great Donon. Silver firs and pines have been planted by the hand of man, and the latter are by no means common except on rugged slopes having a southern aspect. Larches are scarce. The forests to the north of the gap of Zabern and in Lorraine consist of beech-trees, silver firs, and pines, and those around Bitsch and Château-Salins, which furnished the French navy with timber, are noted for their beauty. In Alsace more than a third of the whole area is Fig. 99.—The Ruins of St. Ulrich, near Kappoltswe
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 170 GEEMANY. the Great Donon. Silver firs and pines have been planted by the hand of man, and the latter are by no means common except on rugged slopes having a southern aspect. Larches are scarce. The forests to the north of the gap of Zabern and in Lorraine consist of beech-trees, silver firs, and pines, and those around Bitsch and Château-Salins, which furnished the French navy with timber, are noted for their beauty. In Alsace more than a third of the whole area is Fig. 99.—The Ruins of St. Ulrich, near Kappoltsweiler. wooded, in Lorraine hardly a fourth. Nearly one-half of these woods are the property of the communes—the State, corporations, and private owners sharing in the remainder. Wild animals have almost disappeared from the forests. The elk, the bison, the aurochs, the reindeer, the wild horse, the beaver, the lynx, the bear, the wild goat, and perhaps the chamois, were formerly met with, but have now disappeared. The last bear was killed in 1760, no wild goat has been seen since 1798, and the stag has disappeared from the Eastern Vosges, though still found
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