. The earth and its inhabitants .. . important fact when we consider that most of the factories use steam as a motive power, that supplied by running streams being utilised only in the valleys of the Vosges, the Black Forest, at the foot of the Ore and Giant Mountains, and in Southern Bavaria, more especially near Augsburg, that town of fountains. * Average WMges of agricultural labourers in 1872:—Is. 6d. in summer, Is. Id. in winter. The highest wages ('is. 7d. and 2s.) are paid near Bremen, the lowest fis. 4d. and T^d.) near Ojipeln, in Silesia.

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