The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 BAVAEIA. 235 contingent to this flotilla, which at Donauworth is reinforced by steamers. Nine-tenths of the barges only descend the Danul)e once, for on reaching Vienna they are broken up, to be used as fuel or timber. In its course through Bavaria the Danube makes a wide sweep to the north, flowing along the foot-hills of the Swabian and Franconian Jura and the Bavarian Forest. It passes through a few rocky defiles, but for the greater part of its course alluvial soil forms its southern bank. The river, which formerly spre
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 BAVAEIA. 235 contingent to this flotilla, which at Donauworth is reinforced by steamers. Nine-tenths of the barges only descend the Danul)e once, for on reaching Vienna they are broken up, to be used as fuel or timber. In its course through Bavaria the Danube makes a wide sweep to the north, flowing along the foot-hills of the Swabian and Franconian Jura and the Bavarian Forest. It passes through a few rocky defiles, but for the greater part of its course alluvial soil forms its southern bank. The river, which formerly spread out into a lake covering the whole of the Bavarian plateau, is now represented only by the marshy tracts known as the 'Donau-Ried ' and the ' Donau-Moos.' The lateral branches of the Danube are graduall}^ disappearing, man aiding the operations of nature. Of the tributary rivers those entering on the right are by far the most Fig. 136.—The Scale 1 : 104,000. 8«6lk ^^î^l''^ '^^'W i 2 JVliles. important, not only on account of their volume, but also because of their traversing the whole of the Bavarian plateau. The Inn, a larger stream than the Upper Danube, though much inferior to it as an historical highway, thus flows for more than 100 miles over the plateau before it joins the Danube in the gorge of Passau. The Alpine tributaries of the Danube divide the whole of Uj)per Bavaria into a number of lozenge-shaped sections, and they exercise a considerable influence upon the direction of the aerial currents. The prevailing winds blow either from the west or the east, thus following the foot of the Alps, but the secondary winds ascend or descend the valleys leading up into the Alps.* * Altitudes along the Dnniibe! —The Brege at Fui-twangen, 2,536 feet; the Brigach at Villingen, 2,316 feet; confluence of the Brege and Brigach, 2,220 feet ; at Tuttlingen, above the gorge of the Jura, feet; at Sigmaringen, below the gorge, 1,777 feet; at Ulm, 1,634 feet
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