. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 140 AUSTEIA-HUNGAEY. mines. Stribro (Mies) has lead mines. The name of Pilsen (Plzen, 2,800 inhabitants) is known throughout the world in connection with the beer it exports. The principal brewery, which is carried on conjointly by the 382 house-owners of the town, produces 3,520,000 gallons annually. Coal mines are worked in the vicinity, but Pilsen is no longer the second town of Bohemia, this place having been won by its younger manufacturing rival, Reichenberg. The valley of the Eger, Fig. ^^^^^ stretches along the Scale 1:18,000
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 140 AUSTEIA-HUNGAEY. mines. Stribro (Mies) has lead mines. The name of Pilsen (Plzen, 2,800 inhabitants) is known throughout the world in connection with the beer it exports. The principal brewery, which is carried on conjointly by the 382 house-owners of the town, produces 3,520,000 gallons annually. Coal mines are worked in the vicinity, but Pilsen is no longer the second town of Bohemia, this place having been won by its younger manufacturing rival, Reichenberg. The valley of the Eger, Fig. ^^^^^ stretches along the Scale 1:18,000. n - p ., -r^ .• loot 01 the Jiirzgebirge, abounds in populous cities. That amongst them which is named £ger (13,463 in- habitants), after the river, is not only an important railway centre, but has also manufactures. In its castle Wallenstein was assassi- nated in 1634. Asch {9,4:05 inhabitants), to the north- west of Eger, carries on various textile industries. Carhbad (7,276 inha- bitants), the most famous watering-place of Central Europe, extends for several miles along the valley of the Tepl, a small tributary of the Eger. Its principal spring, the Sêrudel, yields. about 5 gallons of water a second, and the steam rising from it is seen afar. Carlsbad depends mainly upon the 16,000 visitors who annually remain there for at least a week ; but it has also resources of its own. Porcelain and lace are manufactured in the town. Grashfz (6,549 inha- bitants) manufactures embroidery and musical instruments, whilst JoachtmMIial {Q,bSÇ) inhabitants) is noted for its silver mines. Both these towns lie in the Erzgebirge. Saaz (Zatec, 8,870 inhabitants), on the Eger, produces the best hops of Bohemia, whilst Konwtau (Chomutov, 7,422 inhabitants), in the undulating plain to the north of it, has metallurgical works. The valley of the Elbe below the Eger is likewise densely inhabited, the Quarter of a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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