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mines. Stribro (Mies) has lead mines. The name of Pilsen (Plzen, 2,800 

 inhabitants) is known throughout the world in connection with the beer it 

 exports. The principal brewery, which is carried on conjointly by the 382 

 house-owners of the town, produces 3,520,000 gallons annually. Coal mines are 

 worked in the vicinity, but Pilsen is no longer the second town of Bohemia, this 

 place having been won by its younger manufacturing rival, Reichenberg. 



The valley of the Eger, 

 Fig. 86.-CARLSBAD. ^^^^^ stretches along the 



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loot 01 the Jiirzgebirge, 

 abounds in populous cities. 

 That amongst them which 

 is named £ger (13,463 in- 

 habitants), after the river, 

 is not only an important 

 railway centre, but has also 

 manufactures. In its castle 

 Wallenstein was assassi- 

 nated in 1634. Asch {9,4:05 

 inhabitants), to the north- 

 west of Eger, carries on 

 various textile industries. 

 Carhbad (7,276 inha- 

 bitants), the most famous 

 watering-place of Central 

 Europe, extends for several 

 miles along the valley of 

 the Tepl, a small tributary 

 of the Eger. Its principal 

 spring, the Sêrudel, yields 



about 5 gallons of water 



a second, and the steam 

 rising from it is seen afar. 

 Carlsbad depends mainly 

 upon the 16,000 visitors 

 who annually remain there 

 for at least a week ; but it 

 has also resources of its 

 own. Porcelain and lace are manufactured in the town. Grashfz (6,549 inha- 

 bitants) manufactures embroidery and musical instruments, whilst JoachtmMIial 

 {Q,bSÇ) inhabitants) is noted for its silver mines. Both these towns lie in the 

 Erzgebirge. Saaz (Zatec, 8,870 inhabitants), on the Eger, produces the best 

 hops of Bohemia, whilst Konwtau (Chomutov, 7,422 inhabitants), in the undulating 

 plain to the north of it, has metallurgical works. 



The valley of the Elbe below the Eger is likewise densely inhabited, the 



Quarter of a Mile. 



