The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Kaiser Reviewing tiie Imperial Guards at Potsdam Bavaria) reaches an elevation of only 9,725 feet. The northern part,embracing about one third of the country, is a low-lying plain. Ger-many has no well-defined natural borders except on her Austro-Hun-garian and Swiss frontiers, and for a few miles in Alsace, where theVosges Mountains rise between her a
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . Kaiser Reviewing tiie Imperial Guards at Potsdam Bavaria) reaches an elevation of only 9,725 feet. The northern part,embracing about one third of the country, is a low-lying plain. Ger-many has no well-defined natural borders except on her Austro-Hun-garian and Swiss frontiers, and for a few miles in Alsace, where theVosges Mountains rise between her and France. The rest of theFrench boundary is an arbitrary line, while the coast plain thatstretches across Northern Germany merges into Holland and Bel-gium on the west and Russian Poland on tlie east. The country slopesto the North Sea and the Baltic, to which four great rivers find theirway, running roughly in parallel courses. The Rhine, which coursesthrough Holland, the Weser, and the Elbe flow into the North Sea;. 276 THE GERMAN EMPIRE 277 the Oder and the Vistula into the Baltic. The smaller Niemen runsthrough Russia and cuts into German territory a few miles west ofthe frontier. Hamburg, Germanj^s great port, is on the estuary ofthe Elbe; Bremen is on the Weser. Not far from Hamburg lies oneentrance of the great Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, which joins the NorthSea and the Baltic, across territory wrested from Denmark in 1864,and gives the fleet the great strategic advantage of quick and safe ac-cess to both seas. Germany has no great lakes; but east of the Elbe,along the Baltic plain, across which the Russian army of invasion willoperate, there are hundreds of small and medium-sized lakes. Thearea of Germany is 208,780 square miles. Its population, accordingto the census of 1910, was 64,925,993, an average of to thesquare mile. In 1816 the population of the same area was 24,831, present German Empire is one of the youngest of the nations,as it dates only from 1871
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