. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OF THE ELBE, ODEE, AND VLSTULA. 337 Lessing, the painter ; and Lassalle, the social reformer. Its university, founded in 1702 by the Jesuits as a school of theology, but now a liberal institution, is attended by 1,300 students, and possesses a library of 330,000 volumes, the town library containing 200,000. Within 5 miles of Breslau is the famous Field of Dogs (Hundsfeld), where the army of Henry V. was cut to pieces by the Poles (1109). Three rivers join the Oder a short distance below Breslau, viz. the Weida, Fig. 194.—The Town-hall of Br
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OF THE ELBE, ODEE, AND VLSTULA. 337 Lessing, the painter ; and Lassalle, the social reformer. Its university, founded in 1702 by the Jesuits as a school of theology, but now a liberal institution, is attended by 1,300 students, and possesses a library of 330,000 volumes, the town library containing 200,000. Within 5 miles of Breslau is the famous Field of Dogs (Hundsfeld), where the army of Henry V. was cut to pieces by the Poles (1109). Three rivers join the Oder a short distance below Breslau, viz. the Weida, Fig. 194.—The Town-hall of Lohe, and Weistritz. Oeh (8,874 inhabitants) and Namslau (5,383 inhabitants), in the valley of the Weida, to the east of the Oder, are of some importance, but the towns towards the west, in the coal basin lying at the foot of the Eulengebirge, far surpass them. Schweidnifz (19,681 inhabitants), the principal town of this mining district, which annually yields nearly 2,000,000 tons of coal, has factories of every description, but is more especially noted for its gloves. Waldenburg (14,704 inhabitants) has potteries, and all the other towns of the district, including Reichen-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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