The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 234 GEEMANY. way through suhterranean channels into the Rhine. The spring which gives hirth to the Aach, a tributary of the Rhine, is almost wholly fed from the Danube. In 1876 fresh fissures opened in the bed of the river, and they would have swallowed up the whole of its water had not the neighbouring manufacturers, fearful of losing their water-power, stopped them up. At Immendingen, close to the Wiirttemberg frontier, the Danube turns away to the north-east. It now flows through a gorge of the Swabian Jura, hemmed in by
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 234 GEEMANY. way through suhterranean channels into the Rhine. The spring which gives hirth to the Aach, a tributary of the Rhine, is almost wholly fed from the Danube. In 1876 fresh fissures opened in the bed of the river, and they would have swallowed up the whole of its water had not the neighbouring manufacturers, fearful of losing their water-power, stopped them up. At Immendingen, close to the Wiirttemberg frontier, the Danube turns away to the north-east. It now flows through a gorge of the Swabian Jura, hemmed in by cliffs 300 feet in height, but occasionally widening into secluded valleys, with groves of birches and beeches. The rivulets which join the Danube in this part of its course are distinguished, like all others flowing for long distances through Fig. 135.—The Donau-Ried. Scale 1 : 215,000. 10°|25' E ofG 4 MUes. subterranean channels, for their blue transparent water. One of these tributaries, the Blau, rises from a cavern opening at the foot of a hill near Blaubeuren, known as the ' Blue Pot,' on account of the colour of the water which fills it. At TJlm the Danube enters Bavaria, and thanks to the volume of water discharged into it by the Alpine-born Illcr, it at once becomes the great river highway of Southern Germany. The Hier itself is navigable, and the Danube below its confluence has a width of 210 feet, and an average depth of 3 feet. Large square barges, known as ' Schachteln,' or bandboxes, at Vienna, and capable of carrying a hundred tons of merchandise, almost daily take their departure from Neu-Ulm, opposite the mouth of the Hier. Each of the tributary streams adds its
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