. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OF THE ELBE AND WESEE, ETC. 279 InIIA15ITANTS. The dwellers in the plains stretching away to the west of the Elhe are upon the whole of homogeneous origin, and anthropologists search amongst them for the purest representatives of the Germanic type. Yet until quite recently men of foreign speech and origin occupied a part of Hanover. The Slavs, who in the '• March " of Brandenburg became quickly merged in the Germans whose speech they adopted, maintained themselves much longer in the so-called Wend- land of Hanover, a district irrigated
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OF THE ELBE AND WESEE, ETC. 279 InIIA15ITANTS. The dwellers in the plains stretching away to the west of the Elhe are upon the whole of homogeneous origin, and anthropologists search amongst them for the purest representatives of the Germanic type. Yet until quite recently men of foreign speech and origin occupied a part of Hanover. The Slavs, who in the '• March " of Brandenburg became quickly merged in the Germans whose speech they adopted, maintained themselves much longer in the so-called Wend- land of Hanover, a district irrigated by the river Jeetze. Even in the beginning of this century most families there spoke Wendish, and their descendants still make Fig. 160.—Heligoland. Scale 1 : 150, ^7°5o ZiFat/tuiiis'Liin; Depth k'ss lima Ù Fitllioii S'lo 11 Fatliums - 2 Miles. Oter II Eat/tuins use of nearly a thousand words incomprehensible to the Germans in the surround, ing districts. This persistence of Slav speech in the midst of Germans is accounted for by the geographical configuration of the country. The " Land of the Wends " is bounded on the one side by the Heath of Liineburg, on the other by the swamps and lakes of the Altmark, both presenting more formidable obstacles than a river would have done. These Slavs, unfortunately for themselves, were but a small tribe, unable to cope with the German barons of the neighbour- hood, whose subjects they became, and at whose hands they had to suffer all those indignities which a conquering race usually inflicts upon its victims. Other tribal associations have maintained their ground in swampy districts. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D
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