The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-15

| lagos clustering together, and hiC
away in the shadow of fine old trees
the clear, transparent streams,its fine
roads, and its grotesque people
amusing in dress and occupation,not
emitting a passing glance at the nor
lmadic shepherd, with his flock and
Intelligent dog-his home a two
wheeled cart near at hand, which he
moves, to better fields when the pas
ture becomes exhaasted-at night
his flock being penned in and
watched by his faithful dog-con-
stituted the scenery, which was love
ly and interesting, and Of which the
eye never wearied. 1t was Thuring-
en-, the German Switzerland, the
land of song and fable, the birth
place of great men and arts, the land
of superstition and progress. About
noon 1 arrived at Weimar, the capital
of Saxon Weimar, a city of much
interest, but to which, on account of
a lack of time, 1 shall devote special
time and space at some future peri
cd. At 8 P. NJ. I took the post
chaise for Rudolstadt, in the prin-
cipality of Schwartzburg Rudolf
stadt, at which place I arrived in the
evening at y O'Clock, and took lodg-
ing in the fine and new hotel "Lion." !"
In this quiet, romantic little town,
the beauty spot of Thuringen,I I shall
remain two weeks, when I shall com
mence a visit through Thuringen
and report the sights and scenes met
in my journey. Before going furth-
er it will be necessary, and 1 hope
not entirely uninteresting to say
someting geographically, historical
ly, etc, etc, of Thuringen and its
people.
GEOGRAPHICAL CONSOLIDATION OF
THE THURIEGEN Fo' EST.
The surface coverin< the Thu
ringen Forest is 424 miles, and the
number of It's inhabitants over 2O0,-
900. The length of the forest from
Blankenstine in the east on the river
Saale to its northwest point Hirshel
near Eisenach is about IS miles; its
greatest breadth from Zisgenrack on
the river Saale to Kronach in Bava-
ria being Z miles. Of the territory
Miningen covers nearly 6ne-half, the
remainder is occupied by Prussia,
Sachsen-Coburg, Gotha, Sachsen
Weimar, Schwartzburg Rudolstadt,
and Sauderhousen, Bavaria and the
small Reuse PrincipaIities. Along
the crest of this great mountain
forest runs an exceedingly old and
formerly paved road called Remes-
teig or Remway, which was built by
Charles the Great as boundary be-
tween Thuringen and Franconia.
The Thuringen Forest connects it.
self in the southeast with the Fichtel
Cor Pine) Mountains; in the south
west with the Rh@en Mountains;
and notherly its outposts Finne
Hainleibe and Kyfhousen Noun
tains end themselves in the South
Hartz Mounteins.
GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION OF ITS
MOUNTAINS.
1st. The Slate GrOupe, consist
ing of four seperate layers.
a. The green or light slate, of
heavy thick plates, cut through or
intersected by heavy seams of
Quartz, most abundantly found in
and along the river Schwaya. By
the wastings and frictures of water
the quartz will part with its inhep-
rent particles Of sulpher, red iron
stone, copper, and gold which is Oft
en- found in the river sands. In con-
nection with this variety of slate by
which it is covered and broken
through, is 1st, the porphyr rock Of
a reddish color, containing much
quartz; I'd, the shining porpha; Sd
granite; 4th, green stone.
b. The Dark Slate of q dark,
almost black blue color, mostly
thick, and not so much adapted to
roof-covering as the preceding, on
account of its peculiar, but fine col
oring, produced by deposits in its
seams of variously colored lime.
This stone is often used in place of
marble (doeshnitz marble) on ac-
count of its taking a fine polish.
c. The Red Slate consists of
thick green-gray, and red brown
day slate plates, which contain many
round knols of reddish blue lime
substance. These are used in many
portions for pavements. The former
two varieties, containing but few
specimens of pretriction, this last
has many of the trilobites, etc.
d. The Kahn Gray Sldte, the
lowest member of stone-eord forma-
tions, and consists of gray, solid, fine
and coarse sand stones, which often
represent fragment rocks of clay
slate, quartz and black grey slate,
among this formation are some fine
petriged speciments of the calamities
transition and megaphytous.
I'd. Porpbyr Group-the lowest
formation of which is a coarse sand
stone conglomeration, over this is a
layer of gray horn stone lime.
There the shining porphyr, then iron
lime stone rock of a rough appear
ance and gray color which on fric-
ton emits a sulphurous smell and
is therefore called "Stulking Lime
Stone" This porphyr formation in
it's lower strata contains many pet
rified specimens of the paleoniscus,
loxonenea and turbunills while the
upper layer contains many corals,
and shells of the smaller kinds Of
the ovicula, mystilus, and the
trochus helienius or snail house. In
this group are found copper, iron,
cobalt, silver, etc.
Sd. The Variegated Sandstone
covers a great portion Of the I'm
ann Rim country and on both sides
of the Saale in Rudolstadt. This
favuration consists of sandstone and
varigated shining clay mari. The
lower layers of this stone are brown
mari, with the sand-slates and the
sand plates interchanging. Over
these lie mighty banks of sandstone
intermixed with cOlored mari sand
stone slate. The upper layer con
sists of brown-red snd gray-green
mari with banks or layers of tibriu-
GUS, leafy gypsum.
4th. The Shell Lime Stone is