. Germany . ff of the isle of Rugen ; whilefar to the east it shows that it once coveredPoland. The fifth scene shows us the Eocene sea, whichcovered such extended surfaces in England, Bel-gium, and the north of France. It has left butscanty deposits in Germany. A narrow belt ofwater was now all that represented the old Hel-veto-Germanic Sea. The great bulk of modernGermany was dry land. In the Miocene period the sea again gainedupon the land, and that Germanic Mediterraneanwhich we have called the Helveto-GermanicSea became once more of importance. The Alps—which in the Mesolithic age, and pr
. Germany . ff of the isle of Rugen ; whilefar to the east it shows that it once coveredPoland. The fifth scene shows us the Eocene sea, whichcovered such extended surfaces in England, Bel-gium, and the north of France. It has left butscanty deposits in Germany. A narrow belt ofwater was now all that represented the old Hel-veto-Germanic Sea. The great bulk of modernGermany was dry land. In the Miocene period the sea again gainedupon the land, and that Germanic Mediterraneanwhich we have called the Helveto-GermanicSea became once more of importance. The Alps—which in the Mesolithic age, and probably alsoin the Eocene period, had been united to theCarpathians, and formed with them one long moun-tainous island—were broken through by the waves 7 HE NATURAL DIVISIONS. from the south, all Hungary was submerged, andfrom Gratz to Vienna there was a choice of waterways, over the Hungarian Sea, or up a channelabout where now runs the Semmering line. Of thatsea the Balaton and the Neusiedler See may be. 3. The Miocene Sea. imagined to be the mean remains in Hungary, soalso the Chiem See in Bavaria, and also the lakes ofConstance, Zurich, Bienne, and Geneva. At thattime the Mediterranean was united with theHelveto-Germanic Sea by a channel, now traversed GERMANY. by the Danube from Linz to Vienna, for the Hun-garian Sea was then a part of the that time a Dinotherium, standing on the Jura,above Neufchatel, looked out of his dull eyes overa glittering sheet of water, to the Jungfrau andother giants of the Bernese Oberland, and derivedno pleasure from the glorious landscape; and arhinoceros who took to the water at the southernslopes of the Black Forest, would not touch landtill he reached the Uri Rothstock. This last extension of the South German Sea wasof short duration. In the Pliocene age the saltwater retreated, and was replaced here and thereby sweet lakes and marshes. To the north alsothe land gained greatly on the sea, so that, in theperiod of the Dil
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