. Germany . Old Germany. bourage for ships. Lying in the centre of the greatlevel basin between the Ardennes, the Eifel, theWesterwald and the Sauerland, it is sufficiently re-moved from the mountains to draw to it the pro-duce of the rich plain that intervenes between itand their skirts, and to become the centre to which. THURINGIA—THE WARTBURG IN THE DISTANCE. Page 53. THE NORTHERN PLAIN streams all that is marketable in the valleys ofthese ranges. The Roman fortress became in themiddle ages the capital of the Frankish power, andthe centre of Christianity and civilization forLower Germany. I
. Germany . Old Germany. bourage for ships. Lying in the centre of the greatlevel basin between the Ardennes, the Eifel, theWesterwald and the Sauerland, it is sufficiently re-moved from the mountains to draw to it the pro-duce of the rich plain that intervenes between itand their skirts, and to become the centre to which. THURINGIA—THE WARTBURG IN THE DISTANCE. Page 53. THE NORTHERN PLAIN streams all that is marketable in the valleys ofthese ranges. The Roman fortress became in themiddle ages the capital of the Frankish power, andthe centre of Christianity and civilization forLower Germany. It became at once the see of apowerful prince-bishop, a famous trading-place, anda focus of art and culture. At the other extremity of Germany, in an analo-gous position stands Breslau, on the Oder, in thegreat Silesian Bay of the Sudeten. The river isnavigable above Breslau to Ratibor, 125 mileshigher up the stream. It is planted at the centre oftraffic, where the lines meet from the North Sea andthe Baltic to the Danube through the so-calledMoravian Gate. Midway between Cologne andBreslau stands Magdeburg, on the Elbe, preciselywhere this river makes a sharp turn to the northafter having long run in a north-westerly direction,and finally leaves the mountain skirts to traversethe plain. It has already the drainag
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