THE BASIN OF THE MIDDLE ELBE. 



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factories. The neighbouring coal mines supply abundant fuel. One of the seams 

 has been burning for three centuries, a circumstance of which the market 

 gardeners avail themselves by growing early vegetables upon the heated soil. 

 Zwickau has a mining school and a technical academy, and occupies the centre of 

 an important manufacturing district. Amongst the towns near it are Schedcwifz 

 (5,201 inhabitants), Kirchberg (5,761 inhabitants) ; Planitz (9,546 inhabitants), 

 with metallurgical works; Miilsen {9, 51^ inhabitants), Wenlau (11,689 inhabit- 



Fig. 168 — Leipzig. 

 Scale 1 : 120,000. 



12" 20 EotG 



2 Miles. 



ants), Cri)nmitzschaa (17,649 inhabitants), GUnwlum (21,742 inhabitants), Lichten- 

 fifem (7,666 inhabitants), Oclsnitz, Liwgwitz (6,141 inhabitants), Btirgstddt (6,193 

 inhabitants), Lossnitz, Gcrsclorf (3,456 inhabitants), awà Meerane (21,277 inhabit- 

 ants), with numerous cotton-mills. The towns farther north in the valley of 

 the Mulde, such as lioehlifz (5,761 inhabitants), Griinma (7,273 inhabitants), and 

 Wiirzcn (8,165 inhabitants), as well as Borna (7,017 inhabitants), on a tributary 

 of the Elster, lie already within the circle of attraction of Leipzig. 



Chemnitz (85,334 inhabitants), the third city of Saxony in point of population, 



