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Title: Germany
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
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Publisher: London : Low
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Lewis Sergeant.AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. By David Kay.THE WEST INDIES. By C. H. Eden.PERU. By Clements R. Markham.AUSTRALIA. By J. F. Vesey FitzGerald.SPAIN. By the Rev. Wentworth Webster, M.A.SWEDEN & NORWAY. By the Rev. F. H. Woods,B.D. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, AND RIVINGTON, CEOWM BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. CONTENTS. i. PAGE The Natural Divisions of the Land i II. The Northern Plain 16 III.The Mid-Mountain Region 56 IV.The Glacis of the Alps 126 V.The Alps 142 VI.The German People . 147 VII.The German Empire 164 VIII.The Local Structure 188 Appendix A.—Brief Historical Summary . . .211 Appendix B.—Books of Reference 217 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Coburg (from a Sketch by the late Prince Consort) Frontispiece The Triassic Sea 3 The Jurasic Sea . . 5 The Miocene Sea 7 The Four-fold Divisions of Germany . . . .17 Old Germany 52 Thuringia—The Wartburg in the Distance . . 53 Mainz .75 Old Germany 78 Bit of Strassburg ib. Heidelberg Si Marburg 84 Nurnberg 105 Treves 132
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QXLgitMe East 14 from Green-wich. 16 London. Sampson. Low, Marston . Searle, A Bivington GERMANY. THE NATURAL DIVISIONS OF THE LAND. The importance of the physical geography of a country—The sixepochs—The great Helveto-Germanic Sea disappears—The twomain divisions of Germany : the Plain and the Upland—Thestep from Lower to Upper Germany.—The first Terrace—Thesecond Terrace is the bed of the Helveto-Germanic Sea—TheAlps—This fourfold subdivision of Germany makes its geo«graphy intelligible. FOR the proper understanding of the physicalgeography of a country, it is as necessary to lookback to the epochs of its formation, as it is neces-sary to study history for the appreciation of thesocial and political conditions of a nation. The geo-logical map—a mass of paint-splashes to the un-initiated—is a hieroglyphic tablet, that only ren-ders up its secrets when made a matter of carefulstudy ; but then it is found to give a connectedhistory of the past, full of interest, an

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