. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 10 Miles. escapes from Bohemia. The smiling landscapes of its upper course give place to bolder scenery. On both banks rise the basaltic cones of the Mittelgebirge, succeeded by the grotesquely shaped sandstone masses of Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland. Picturesque towns are seated upon the winding river, and castles crown the heights looking down upon this gateway of the Elbe, which forms both a geographical and political boundary, separating Bohemia from the lowlands of Germany. Inhabitants. Two thousand years have passed away since Bohemia and Moravia wer
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 10 Miles. escapes from Bohemia. The smiling landscapes of its upper course give place to bolder scenery. On both banks rise the basaltic cones of the Mittelgebirge, succeeded by the grotesquely shaped sandstone masses of Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland. Picturesque towns are seated upon the winding river, and castles crown the heights looking down upon this gateway of the Elbe, which forms both a geographical and political boundary, separating Bohemia from the lowlands of Germany. Inhabitants. Two thousand years have passed away since Bohemia and Moravia were in the possession of the Boii and other tribes, usually called Celtic. Near Olmlitz and at * Eainfall in inches :—Bodenhach, at the gate of the Elbe, 23-6 ; Trautenau, near the source of the Elbe, 40-6 ; Prague, 15-7 ; Budweis, on the Upper Vltava, 24-4.
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