. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5 Miles. IN'aples, and Constantinople, and none can look without pleasure upon this " town of the hundred towers," with its castellated heights of theHrad8hin,its fortress of Vyêehrad, and its bridges spanning the lake-like Vltava, with its verdant islands. Prague lies in the very centre of Bohemia, and only Leitmeritz, below the con- fluence of the Eger and Elbe, and above the gorge leading through Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland, occupies a geographical position at all comparable with it. Prague, however, offers far greater facilities for communi
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5 Miles. IN'aples, and Constantinople, and none can look without pleasure upon this " town of the hundred towers," with its castellated heights of theHrad8hin,its fortress of Vyêehrad, and its bridges spanning the lake-like Vltava, with its verdant islands. Prague lies in the very centre of Bohemia, and only Leitmeritz, below the con- fluence of the Eger and Elbe, and above the gorge leading through Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland, occupies a geographical position at all comparable with it. Prague, however, offers far greater facilities for communicating with the countries lying outside the mountain ramparts of Bohemia, and its natural advantages are aided by a network of railways converging upon it. Next to Vienna and Buda- Pest, Prague is the most populous city of the empire, ranking far above every other town of Bohemia. The " Old City," in the centre of modern Prague, abounds in historical * In 1875, 120,000 Slavs, 88,000 Germans, 15,000 Jews.
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