The Rhine, its valley and history . there areseveral respects in which the basins of the Upper Mo-selle and Upper Meuse differ markedly from those ofthe sister tributaries in Swabia and Franconia. In thefirst place they are more sharply divided from the RiftValley of the main river. The Vosges, from the Belchento the Donon, form a more continuous ridge than theBlack Forest opposite. Further north, between theVosges and the Hardt Mountains, there is no merelyhilly section of the boundary of the Rhine Valley at allcomparable for ease of passage with the district of theKraichgau behind Carlsruhe
The Rhine, its valley and history . there areseveral respects in which the basins of the Upper Mo-selle and Upper Meuse differ markedly from those ofthe sister tributaries in Swabia and Franconia. In thefirst place they are more sharply divided from the RiftValley of the main river. The Vosges, from the Belchento the Donon, form a more continuous ridge than theBlack Forest opposite. Further north, between theVosges and the Hardt Mountains, there is no merelyhilly section of the boundary of the Rhine Valley at allcomparable for ease of passage with the district of theKraichgau behind Carlsruhe and Bruchsal, on theopposite side of the Rift. Finally, in the neighbour-hood of the Rheingau, the small basin of the Nahe,with its rugged surface and deeply incised valleys,is far other than the broad entry of the Main plainbetween the Taunus and the Odenwald, in the centreof which stands the city of Frankfurt. Moreover, theMoselle and the Meuse instead of joining the Rhinewithin the Rift Valley, as do the Main and the Neckar,124. The ZMoselle a?id the Upper ZMeusepierce their own gorges through the northern SchistPlateau. Lorraine, a term which may be broadly applied tothe whole of the upper basins of the Moselle and Meuse,is divided more definitely by these several features fromthe Rhine Valley than it is from the French land ofChampagne by the Argonne and from the FreeCounty of Burgundy by the Monts Faucilles. Rela-tively to the French territories west and south of itLorraine is a plateau, but the difference of levels is byno means so marked as where the plateau ol Bavariarises along the brink of the German Jura above thedeep-lying basins of the Swabian Neckar and the Fran-conian Main. Lorraine has, therefore, at all timestended to be a buffer land between Germany andFrance, being separated from Germany by the Vosges,the Hardt and the Schistose highland of the Hunsriick,but separated also from France by the fact that thedrainage of the navigable rivers is Rhine-ward and not
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