New geographies . s flow rivers do you find?Trace their courses. Navigation is possible uponall of these, but it is most ex-tensive on the Rhine (Fig. 244).Boats can ascend this streamall the way from the sea to theboundary of Switzerland. Howfar is that ? You can see howvery important this must be incarrying goods across the Em-pire. The chief seaport of Ger-many is Hamburg, on theElbe River. Bremen, west Great centersof Hamburg, is another im- * populationportant port. Why are these cities morefavorably situated than those farthereast on the Baltic Sea ? There is now aship can
New geographies . s flow rivers do you find?Trace their courses. Navigation is possible uponall of these, but it is most ex-tensive on the Rhine (Fig. 244).Boats can ascend this streamall the way from the sea to theboundary of Switzerland. Howfar is that ? You can see howvery important this must be incarrying goods across the Em-pire. The chief seaport of Ger-many is Hamburg, on theElbe River. Bremen, west Great centersof Hamburg, is another im- * populationportant port. Why are these cities morefavorably situated than those farthereast on the Baltic Sea ? There is now aship canal across the peninsula south ofDemnark. How is that an advantageto Germany ? There are many other large cities inGermany. The greatest of all is Berlin,the capital and largest city of the Em-pire. Here are located the palaces ofthe Emperor and many government EUROPE 195 buildings. Berlin has also many mu-seums, noted picture galleries, and alarge university. In addition, it is agreat manufacturing Fig. 245. — A street in Frankfurt, with quaint old German houses. Leipzig is well known for its trade in books,while Dkesden and MuiricH, like Berlin, havewonderful coUections of pictures. The schools,universities, and museums of Germany areamong the best in the world, and many Ameri-cans go there each year to study. Colognehas an old cathedral of note, and Feankfuetis an important center of commerce. Locateeach of these cities on the map. (3) FranceFrance is one of the few countries inEurope, and the only large one, that hasIts form of a republican form of govern-government ment. For many centuriesit was a monarchy, but now the peopleelect a president and representatives,just as we do. The President of theRepublic at the present time is ArmandFallieres (Fig. 246). By looking at the map, Agriculture ^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^ j,^^^^g j-^g 1. Companson -J i i t-i i J with England farther south than Jiingland, and Germany ^^^ ^^^^ f^^j^ ^^^^ ^f i^ JieS farther south than the southern par
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