. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. MIXINO. 3G1 the State yielding least of all. On the Rhine, in Saxony and "VVurttemberg, where small properties preponderate, the land is more productive than in Posen, with its large estates.* Mining. Germany ranks next to England as a mining country. The coal mines of Saarbrlicken, the Euhr, and Upper Silesia are almost inexhaustible—a very Fig. 208.— 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 Fo
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. MIXINO. 3G1 the State yielding least of all. On the Rhine, in Saxony and "VVurttemberg, where small properties preponderate, the land is more productive than in Posen, with its large estates.* Mining. Germany ranks next to England as a mining country. The coal mines of Saarbrlicken, the Euhr, and Upper Silesia are almost inexhaustible—a very Fig. 208.— 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 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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