The Rhine, its valley and history . heim and Kaiserslautern, andnow Saarbruck and Trier. The Rhenish ambition ofNapoleon, thus drawn out, was the anvil on whichBismarck welded the treaties which bound the SouthGerman States, at war with Prussia in 1866, into theleague which overcame France in 1870. In the resultthe French frontier was once more thrown back fromall contact with the Rhine. Considered in the light of the physical and historicalfacl:s which have thus been sketched, the Rhine basinsubdivides naturally into eleven regions. In the Alpsthere are two groups of sources, for the mountain
The Rhine, its valley and history . heim and Kaiserslautern, andnow Saarbruck and Trier. The Rhenish ambition ofNapoleon, thus drawn out, was the anvil on whichBismarck welded the treaties which bound the SouthGerman States, at war with Prussia in 1866, into theleague which overcame France in 1870. In the resultthe French frontier was once more thrown back fromall contact with the Rhine. Considered in the light of the physical and historicalfacl:s which have thus been sketched, the Rhine basinsubdivides naturally into eleven regions. In the Alpsthere are two groups of sources, for the mountains ofSwitzerland form two parallel ranges more or less separ-ated by a continuous valley. In south-eastern Switzer-land, in the Canton of the Graubiinden or Grisons, theRhine is derived from the Rhaetic (1) or hinder of theseranges, and it then (2) flows round the eastern end ofSwitzerland and through the Lake of Constance, atone time known as the Swabian Sea. In this, the secondpart of its course, it may therefore conveniently be24. The Rhinedescribed as the Swabian Rhine. Before leaving Switzer-land, the mainstream is joined by a great tributary, theAar,which collects the (3) sourcesof the Helvetic or frontrange of the Alps. At Basle the Rhine enters Germanyand traverses (4) its upper valley to Mainz and Bingen,becoming navigable (5) for large vessels at either hand of this seclion of the course are tribu-tary basins, to the right (6) those of the Neckar and theMain, to the left (7) of those of the Upper Moselle andthe Upper Meuse. But the Neckar and Main are farmore intimately connected with the Upper Rhine be-cause they enter the main river above the gorge, whereasthe Moselle and Meuse plunge into gorges in the Schistupland which are similar to that of the Rhine we have the gorge (8) of the Middle Rhine throughthe Schist upland to Bonn, and then the German plain iscrossed (9) to the bifurcation of the river on the Dutchfrontier. The land of Upper Lorr
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