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Nearly all the other (owns and villages of Austria proper are dependencies of 

 Vienna, and their prosperity is materially influenced by that of the capital. The 

 baths of Baden (5,847 inhabitants), delightfully situated at the eastern foot of 

 the Wienerwald, are a favourite summer resort of the Viennese. Voskiu (2,152 

 inhabitants), farther south, is famous on account of its vineyards. Wiener- 

 Neustadt (18,070 inhabitants) is a busy manufacturing town at the northern 

 foot of the Semmering Alps, and near it is Frohsdorf, the property of a prince 

 who to other titles adds that of "King of France." Bruck-on-the-Leitha (4,203 

 inhabitants) and Hainhury (4,178 inhabitants) are commercial outposts of Vienna, 

 the one on the road to Buda-Pest, the other on the Danube. Kiosterneuburg (5,330 

 inhabitants), on the right bank of the river; Korneuhurrj (4,256 inhabitants) 

 and Stockerait (5,018 inhabitants), on its left bank, flourish because of their vicinity 

 to the great city. From the first of these towns a steep railway takes us to the 

 summit of the Kahlenberg, a favourite " look-out " of the Viennese. The prospect 

 from the Leopoldsberg, however, is far more attractive, the eye ranging over the 

 broad plain of the Danube. It was in the vineyards of the Leopoldsberg that 

 the phylloxera first made its appearance in Austria. 



In addition to the towns in the immediate vicinity of Vienna, and of Linz 

 (30,538 inhabitants) and Krems (6,114 inhabitants), which are indebted for their 

 prosperity to their position on important highways of commerce, there exist but 

 few centres of population in Austria. The manufacturing town of *S^. Polten 

 (7,779 inhabitants), to the west of Vienna, is one of them. Sieijr (3,392 inhabit- 

 ants), on the Enns, and Waidhofen (3,497 inhabitants), still farther west, on the 

 Ybbs, are others. The towns named last are the centres of the Austrian iron 

 industry. A few towns of importance are met with in the picturesque Salz- 

 kammergut, or " Salt Estate," including Ginilnden (1,408 inhabitants), pic- 

 turesquely seated upon the Lake of Traun ; Ischl (1,999 inhabitants), famous as 

 a watering-place ; and the ancient city of Halhtatt (1,300 inhabitants), with salt 

 mines, worked for more than two thousand years, as is proved by the Celtic tools 

 and arms occasionally turned up by the miners. 



