. The earth and its inhabitants .. . M'(>H-Ge'-)nan m'-jd' .TeiTiioriea ^ miles wide, which in a former age pent up its waters. The rivers farther to the east, having been prevented by the Thuringian Forest from flowing in the same direction as the Rhine, have taken their course along the northern foot of the Alps, and formed the Danube, which loses itself in an inland sea. In several places the basins of the Danube and the Rhine are by no means well defined. The Upper Danube, as far as Ratisbon, flows along the southern foot of the Swabian Jura ; that is, in exactly the same direction as t
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . M'(>H-Ge'-)nan m'-jd' .TeiTiioriea ^ miles wide, which in a former age pent up its waters. The rivers farther to the east, having been prevented by the Thuringian Forest from flowing in the same direction as the Rhine, have taken their course along the northern foot of the Alps, and formed the Danube, which loses itself in an inland sea. In several places the basins of the Danube and the Rhine are by no means well defined. The Upper Danube, as far as Ratisbon, flows along the southern foot of the Swabian Jura ; that is, in exactly the same direction as the Aar, which follows the Swiss Jura. Many of the smaller tributaries appear to hesitate whether to flow to one river or the other, and at least one of them is fed through subterranean channels from the Danube, and discharges itself into the Rhine, thus virtually converting the Upper Danube into a tributary of that river. The Altmuhl and the Regnitz— 83
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