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Mediterranean. The waters of the Dead Sea 

 are intensely salt, of great specific gravity, and 

 have no perceptible outlet; in the north it re- 

 ceives the waters of the Jordan. 



Denmark, a kingdom of Northern Europe, 

 i- composed of a peninsular portion, and an 

 ive archipelago, lying east of it. with a 

 few scattered islands on its west side. The 

 peninsular portion is composed of Jutland, and 

 res, north to south, 185 miles, with a 

 breadth varying from forty miles to 108 miles. 

 - these territories, Denmark possesses the 

 Faroe Islands and Iceland, in the North Atlan- 

 tic Ocean, and Greenland in the Arctic regions, 

 al-o the Danish West Indies. Denmark has no 

 rivers. Intercourse between the various 

 i-lands and parts of the kingdom separated , 

 from each other by water is necessarily Kept up 

 by means of water communication, regular 

 ferries being established at numerous points. 

 Denmark i> well supplied with excellent sea- 

 ports, the mo-t important being Copenhagen. 

 Aalborg, Aaarhus, and Randers. Horses and 

 cattle are reared in great numbers, and both 

 are excellent. Large flocks of sheep are kept : 

 hut rather for the flesh than the wool, which i- 

 -e and short. Swine are also reared to a 

 extent. Although not particularly fav- 

 ored by nature, Denmark is yet preeminently 

 an agricultural country. The land is greatly 

 subdivided, as the law interdicts the union of 

 small farms into larger, and encourages the 

 division of landed property. The kinds of 

 grain most largely cultivated are barley, oat-. 

 rye, and wheat, the greatest area being occupied 

 ly oat-, the second by barley. The fisheries 

 were formerly a more important branch of 

 national industry than now. 



Detroit, metropolis of Michigan, is situated 

 on the Detroit River, about eighteen miles from 

 Lake Erie, and four mile- from Lake St. ('lair. 

 It has a water front of eight miles; steamship 

 iiunication with the principal ports on the 

 t Lake-; and ferric- to \\ind-or on the 

 Canadian side. The river at this point is known 

 iie "Dardanelles of the New World." leading 

 a one great lake to another and affording an 

 excellent harbor. Detroit ha- many magnilirent 

 public park-, and over $500,000 is exj tended 

 annually for their maintenance. The lari:e>t 

 and most beautiful i- Belle Nc. an i-land of 

 700 acres at the entrance of Lake St. Clair. 

 This park is an immen-e pleasure -.'round and 

 offers all sorts of amusements. No city of it- 

 in the country surpasses Detroit in the 

 number, beauty, and sub-t.miial quality of it- 

 public and business buildings. Amoni: the mo-t 

 noteworthy are the Chamber of Conn: 



.c. I'nion Tru-t. Hammond, municipal build- 

 county court house, city hall, the ; 

 otlice. built at a DO < lard 



arin Museum. Central hiu'h school 



Masonic Temple. Near the ' M.iMiu- i- 



the public library, with l.">n.uno volume-. In 

 front of the citv hall stands a ma^ni' 



nument. < Mher points 



tain. Kvaeuation \ >e old home of 



on Lake Lne. I )etn>it is an ev 



facturing and commercial citv. Population, 

 :.G3. 



Dresden, the capital of the kingdom of 

 Saxony, is situated in a beautiful valley on 

 both sides of the River Elbe. Among the 'chief 

 edifices, besides several of the churches, are the 

 museum (joined on to an older range of build- 

 ings called the Z winger), a beautiful building 

 containing a famous picture gallery and other 

 treasures; and the Japanese Palace (Augusteum 

 containing the royal library of from 300,000 to 

 400,000 volumes. The city is distinguished for 

 its excellent educational, literary, and artistic 

 institutions, among which are the Polytechnic 

 School, the Con-ervatory and School of Mu-ie. 

 the Academy of Fine Arts, etc. The manufac- 

 tures are important and various in character; 

 the china, however, for which the city is famed. 

 i- made chiefly at Meissen, fourteen miles di- 

 tant. The commerce is considerable, and has 

 greatly increased since the development of the 

 railway system. The chief glorv of Dresden is 

 the gallery of pictures, one of the finest in the 

 world. The pictures number about 25.000. and 

 in particular comprise many fine specimens of 

 the Italian, Dutch, and Flemish scnools. 'The 

 city suffered severely in the Thirty Years' War. 

 and also in 1813, when it was the headquarters 

 of Napoleon's army. It was occupied by the 

 1'ru ians in 1866, but was evacuated in the 

 following spring. Population. .~>lo,996. 



Dublin (Irish, Dubh-linn. "black pool"), 

 the capital of Ireland, stands on the River 

 Liffey, where it disembogues into Dublin 1 

 Much of Dublin is built on land reclaimed from 

 the sea, a work which still continues; and the 

 ground is generally flat, with a very few undu- 

 lations. The river, running from east to we-i. 

 divides the city into two almost equal j>ortion-. 

 The aristocratic parts are the southeast and 

 northeast, containing many beautiful squ 

 with splendid streets and terraces. The center 

 and the northwest quarter are the great em- 

 poriums of trade ami the residence of the middle 

 classes. The southwest division, part of which 

 i- called the "Liberties." once the seat of the 

 -ilk trade, is the most filthy and degraded por- 

 tion of the city. The streets in this quarter 

 are narrow, crooked, and irregular, while in the 

 fa-hionable quarter they possess a totally oppo- 

 -iie character. The city is .surrounded by ' 

 "Circular Koad." of nearly nine miles in lenirth. 

 forming a favorite dn\e and promena.: 

 ulation, 29< ' 



Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, and chief 

 to\\n of Mid Lothian, occupies a picturesque 

 -it nation on a < In 1.1 "t eminences at a distance 

 of about one and one half miles from the I'irth 

 i orth. It- admirable po-ition has induced 

 the comparison \\ith Athens, from \\hirh 

 \\ell a- from its literary fame, it takes the title 



M,,deni Ml - -'he name of the 



city i- ' Dunedin." A picturesque castle ern\\n- 

 the highest point in the cit\ 11. .|\ r< 

 and palace in the |o\\ ground east of the 



B groat historic im> .mhiirch i- the 



! nee of considerable numborM of the > 

 tish landed L'-ntr\ . and 



unusually jNili^: : iinmance 



of tin- professional and literary element- \\. 



