The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 BAVARIA. 227 Kônigsee occupies a much-admired site in the midst of the mountains. This latter is the most beautiful lake of all Germany. Its grey-green waters reflect the snow- capped summit of the Watzmann (8,987 feet), cascades sparkle amongst the foliage, the forests descend in many places to the edge of the Avater, and villas occupy every coin of vantage around it. The foaming rivulet which escapes from this charming lake flows through the valley of Berchtesgaden towards Salz- burg. There is no more delightful valley in
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 BAVARIA. 227 Kônigsee occupies a much-admired site in the midst of the mountains. This latter is the most beautiful lake of all Germany. Its grey-green waters reflect the snow- capped summit of the Watzmann (8,987 feet), cascades sparkle amongst the foliage, the forests descend in many places to the edge of the Avater, and villas occupy every coin of vantage around it. The foaming rivulet which escapes from this charming lake flows through the valley of Berchtesgaden towards Salz- burg. There is no more delightful valley in all Bavaria than that of Berchtes- gaden, with its brine springs and salt works, its watering-places and summer Fig. 130.—View of the Kônigsee. resorts. And yet man there is physically most wretched. Subjected for ages to the hard rule of monks, the dwellers in this earthly paradise became so poor that the peasants of the neighbourhood refused to give their daughters in marriage to them. Consanguineous marriages and physical deterioration were the result, and in the district of Berchtesgaden one amongst every fourteen inhabitants is afflicted with goitre, and one in a hundred and fifty is a crétin ! Their occupation— the carving of wooden images—necessitating much confinement, only increases these evils. The mountainous region which bounds the plateau of Bavaria on the east, and
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