. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. WÛETTEMBEEG AND HOHENZOLLERN. 219 Fig;. 126. Heilbeonn and the " Loops " of Lauffen. Scale 1 : 163,000. |c.„.^^fcH ^,^^,=::âP^^I L^ROWi;. more to tlie north, divides the central plateau of the Rauhe Alp from that of the Albach. A third river gorge separates the Albach from the Hardtfeld ; and the Bavarian Wernitz divides the Swabian from the Franconian Jura. These breaches, or gorges, offer peculiar facilities for the construction of roads and railways. The limestone mountains of Swabia are as replete with fossils as are those of Switzer
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. WÛETTEMBEEG AND HOHENZOLLERN. 219 Fig;. 126. Heilbeonn and the " Loops " of Lauffen. Scale 1 : 163,000. |c.„.^^fcH ^,^^,=::âP^^I L^ROWi;. more to tlie north, divides the central plateau of the Rauhe Alp from that of the Albach. A third river gorge separates the Albach from the Hardtfeld ; and the Bavarian Wernitz divides the Swabian from the Franconian Jura. These breaches, or gorges, offer peculiar facilities for the construction of roads and railways. The limestone mountains of Swabia are as replete with fossils as are those of Switzerland. The Boll, to the south of Stuttgart, has acquired some fame on account of the skeletons of fossil reptiles which have been found there. Steinheim, between the Albach and the Hardtfeld, presents the curious spectacle of a huge atoll, similar in all respects to the atolls built by zoophytes in the Pacific. The Klosterberg, in the centre of the atoll, with its nineteen distinct varieties of a species of Planorbis, is one of the great battle-grounds of palaeontologists. The marls of that district are soaked with oil, apparently consisting of a mixture of mineral substances with the fat of the animals buried there. Every square mile of the bituminous slate of the Swabian Jura contains, according to Quenstedt, about 515,000 tons of oil, resulting from the decomposition of small marine animals. That portion of Wiirttemberg which lies between the Jura and the Lake of Constanz belongs to the plateau of Bavaria. Nearly all the rivers to the north of the Jura flow into the Neckar, the only exceptions being the Kinzig and the Murg, which flow direct to the Rhine, and the Tauber, which is tributary to the Main. The Neckar rises in a swampy depres- sion to the west of the plateau of the Baar, at an elevation of 2,290 feet above the sea. Reinforced by numerous streams descending from the Black Forest and Jura, it soon becomes large enough to float timber. Below Cannstadt the river i
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