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in Lorraine. Deer have been exterminated, but were recently reintroduced into 

 the forests of Schlettstadt. Wolves come over occasionally from the Jura and the 

 Ardennes, and about a thousand wild boars are killed annually ; but wild cats and 

 foxes have become rare. 



Fig. 100. — The Basin of the III. 

 Scale 1 : 900.000. 



_ 10 Miles. 



The forests of Alsace, though very extensive even now, have shrunk consider- 

 ably in the course of centuries, and thousands of acres have recently been 

 replanted with a view to regulating the climate and the flow of the rivers. Dams 

 have been constructed across many of the smaller rivers, and water, stored up by 



