Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-11

the Obererzgebirge ana the voigtlAllsa lsal92'
The annual Vaftie of'the linen 9nlahufao-
btures Is $3y000y0 y000Jn WO0len manufactures
ARE very, extensive, and those Of cotton
stuffs and cotton hosiery have rapidly in
creased iii recent times. ~ D'" '@'i eD"! u"
| No country inRafope islmorel densely
populatcdg On anlaYerage there are q3451a
inhabitants to an English square mile, and.
in. some parts of the country there. are,
nearly 800 TO the sqtare mile. Tie pflhef-
pal towns are described under jDresClenll
1eipzig,J ihausitz,s Ghemnitz, Fgsibergs
Plauens Zittau, Bautzen, Meissen, Schp pee- /
berg, Annaberg, Pirna, &c. -
fsidg yd .sf,, o. ,sILEsIA. i4.frys bue .,,,|
Silesia (Schlesiepl a province, of Prus.d
sia, is situated between 49 deg. 40 min. and
81 deg. min. North lat. IA deg. 20 min q
and 10 deg. 10 min9i East long! It Is
bounded NV, by .Brandenbuyg; \. N.EnIbyI
Posen; j., by Poland; Sc. by Austrian
Galicia; S. by Austrian Silesia; and S::W.bY
Bohemia. The proVihe6l is 2l0 miles IN
length from HoEtheastotO southwest, and
from 20 to S0miles in,brsadth from east TO-
west. The area, OF. the, province is 1895
square miles. The population in 1852 was
3,17317ly of whom 81, 1873 were Jews, and
the TemainderP Protestantsan and Catholics imI
nearly equal numbers. The river Oder,
which becomes navigable soon after enter
ing the Prussian boundary, divides the
province in its whole length into TIVE near
ly equal parts which are very different
from each other. That on, the left bank
which is called the German side, is .hilfy,
but has very fertile soiEiwhich amply fe-
wards the labOrUf the husbahdman.1 That
on the right bank, called the Polish side,
consists, chiefly of a sandy and not very
nj cpfI hOWnvnFA
sandy tracts on the German side, lahdisomel
rich and productive spots on the Polish
side. The county is highest on the soutl-
eastern frontier, and declines more toward
the northwestern frontier, where it Is the
lowest. %" Oh "t" N7l4m, ri l19 -I.l
Where the frontiers of Silesia and BOhe-
mia meet q mountain chain rises, which eX=r
tends southwark to the sources of the BTes-
wa and the Ostrawitza, where it joins the
Carpathiansg divides the basin Of the Oder
on the one side from those of the Elbe and
Danube on the other, and fOrms'the natural
boundary between Silesia and BOhemia and
Moravia. This chain. called by the general
name of the Sudetie Chain. is divided into
different parts, bearing different names as
the Isergebirge, the RiesengebiTge, the l0t-
tiest anu widest part of the whole chain,
the Schneekoppe, which is 1850 feet above
the level of tn 5oseaI the Glatz Mountains,
etc. In the interior there are some ranges
uneonnecttd with the great chain, the prin-
cipal of which is the Z0btaugebirge, 2,3lS
feet above theleyel Of the sea. On the right
side of the Oder, from the part where its
course is to the 1northward, the high land
disappears, aud those immense plains begin
which characterize this part of Europe
The Oder, locally called the AdeT, comes
from Moravia and receives the Elsa the
KlOdnitz, the Slober and the Bartsch on
the right side; the Oppa, tue Neisse, the |
Ohlau and the Katzbach on the left. ~
The manufactures Of Silesia are Of the.
greatest importance, and that OF linen has
EXISTED from very remote time. Il is car
ried on with little aid from machinery, and
chiefly by the country people. The cotton
manufacture hasf extended considerably
since 1910. WOolen clothsare man utaetuI-
ed in some towns. There are sugar Tedner-,
les in, several places; tanneries at Breslau
and Schweidffitz, and breweries and brandy
distilleries in most of the towns. Mschin-y
cry has been introduced INTO some larger
! n.ss,.vIapturIes IOr textile products. - -. d.
| Austrian Silesia is that part of Silesia
which was retained By Austria in the treaty
of Hubertsburg iHl763 .O1ltris united with
Morayia, with which ii forms one province.
| ai aa snow od IBoHEMIK!3uy' aaf o. guol
Bohemia lin German; Bohmen, ALSO
termed Boheim in many ancient records,
| derives its name from the Boil, who once
occupied the parts abeut the sources Of the
Elbe -aud MOldauS II. now go institutes "a
kingdom forming dart OF the empire of
| Austria, comprising Bohemia Proper; the
margraviate Of Moravia. and small por-
| ton Of the duchy Of Upper SileslA The
whole circuit of BOhBmia is estimated at
/ OIn - L.
ABOUT ol1 hhlleS, oI Whlcll 100 He ,As4s "
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