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Forests still constitute the great wealth of the Schwarzwald, even though 

 many slopes have been robbed of them. Attempts to cultivate the land thus 

 disafforested have not always been successful. The peasants of Kniebes, at the 

 foot of a mountain bearing the same name, destroyed the forest which had 

 afforded them a maintenance, but the fields which took its place refused to yield a 

 remunerative harvest. In the end they were driven to abandon their village, and 

 the forest has been replanted. The mines, which were formerly very productive, 

 have for the most part been abandoned, and many of the mountaineers annually 

 descend into the plain in search of work. Those who remain at home employ their 

 leisure in plaiting straw, and more especially in the manufacture of clocks, a 



Fig. 111. — The Pass of the Gutach. 

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branch of industry which originated here. Manufactories, too, are springing up, 

 and the tourist, stepping out from the dense forest, is occasionally surprised by 

 suddenly coming upon a factory, with its smoking chimneys and swarms of factory 

 hands. 



The wooded hills which form the continuation of the Black Forest, to the 

 north of the gap of Pforzheim, attain only a moderate height. They terminate 

 close to Heidelberg, in the Konigstuhl (1,900 feet). Beyond the Neckar the 

 country rises once more, forming the Odenwald. This region of hills is of granitic 

 and crystalline formation in the west, where it sinks down boldly into the vale of the 

 Rhine and Main, whilst sandstone prevails in the east, with masses of volcanic 



