. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, AND AUSTRIAN SILESIA. 127 The Erzgebirge, or '* Ore Mountains," whicli bound Boliemia on the north-west, contrast in several respects with the Bohemian Forest. Rising like a wall above the vallevs of the Eger and Biela, in Bohemia, they slope down gently on the Saxon side. Strategically they form, consequently, a part of Germany, and in reality the whole of their slopes are peopled by Germans, who have brought under cultivation all the available soil. The highest village, Gottesgabe, lies at an elevation of 3,440 feet. The r
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, AND AUSTRIAN SILESIA. 127 The Erzgebirge, or '* Ore Mountains," whicli bound Boliemia on the north-west, contrast in several respects with the Bohemian Forest. Rising like a wall above the vallevs of the Eger and Biela, in Bohemia, they slope down gently on the Saxon side. Strategically they form, consequently, a part of Germany, and in reality the whole of their slopes are peopled by Germans, who have brought under cultivation all the available soil. The highest village, Gottesgabe, lies at an elevation of 3,440 feet. The range is of more uniform contour than the Bohemian Forest, and its summits are more rounded. Numerous roads cross it in all directions. Only towards the extremities does it present really picturesque features: in the west, where chaotically piled-up mountain summits join it to the Fig. 78.—The Pass of Taus (Doma^lice). Scale 1 : 425,000. IO°hO E of Paris iRolovec I. 50 Eof G 5 Miles. Fichtelgebirge, and in the east, where it terminates in the grotesquely shaped sandstone rocks of " Saxon Switzerland," at the foot of which flows the Elbe.* To the west of the deep gorge scooped out by the Elbe on its passage from Bohemia into Saxony rises a mountain system which is geologically a pendant of the Erzgebirge. It begins with the volcanic range of Lusatia, continued in the schistose ridge of the Jeschhen (Jested, 3,323 feet). A broad plain separates the Jeschken from the triple granitic range of the Iser Mountains (3,687 feet), and the crystalline and schistose masses of the Riesengebirge, or " Giant Mountains," whose bold contours remind us of the Alps. More elevated than the Bohemian Forest— the Schneekoppe rising to a height of 5,186 feet—this mountain mass impresses * Length of the Erzgebirge, 85 miles; average width, 23 miles; average height, 2,620 feet; culmi- nating point (Keilberg), 4,182 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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