. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BAVARIA. 247 Munich tas become an important centre of industry. Iron and brass castings, bronzes, mathematical and scientific instruments are manufactured there. The publishing trade, too, is an active one, and the number of periodicals, especially of Catholic ones, is very large, for Munich is the head-quarters of the TJltramon- tanes in Southern Germany.* But far more important than either of the above branches of industry are the breweries, and the drinking-halls attached to them attract more visitors on holidays than do the shaded walks of the
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. BAVARIA. 247 Munich tas become an important centre of industry. Iron and brass castings, bronzes, mathematical and scientific instruments are manufactured there. The publishing trade, too, is an active one, and the number of periodicals, especially of Catholic ones, is very large, for Munich is the head-quarters of the TJltramon- tanes in Southern Germany.* But far more important than either of the above branches of industry are the breweries, and the drinking-halls attached to them attract more visitors on holidays than do the shaded walks of the " English Garden " on the Isar, or the park of Nyinphenhiwrj (1,788 inhabitants), the Bavarian Versailles, f In summer the charming lakes at the foot of the Alps are much frequented by the inhabitants of Munich. Partcnkirchen, in the upper valley of the Loisach, Berchtesgaden (1,816 inhabitants), ReichenhaU (3,302 inhabitants), and other Fig. 143.—The Aqxieduct of Reichenhall. Scale 1 : 670,000. .10° Paris 10° 30'. I2°20' I2°50' =— 10 Miles. watering-places in the vicinity of Salzburg and at the foot of the Untersberg, whose quarries have supplied most of the stone for the large buildings of Munich, are favourite resorts. Eeichenhall, owing to the abundance and efficacy of its waters, sees most visitors. The springs of that " Hall "—a name by which all brine springs were known to the ancient Celtic inhabitants of Germany—are fed by water which percolates through the saliferous strata worked at Berchtesgaden and at Hallein. An aqueduct, constructed in 1817, conveys the brine of Reichenhall to Traimsiein (4,466 inhabitants), and thence to Rosenheim (7,501 inhabitants), the Pons Œni of the Romans, on the Inn. This aqueduct has a total length of 60 miles. * In 187G, 236 Catholic periodicals, having 1,040,000 , were published throughout Germany. Of these 54, having 380,000 subscribers, appeared in Bavaria. t In 1875 the 20 br
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