PLAINS OF THE ELBE, ODER, AND VISTULA. 



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Brandenburg. — The Spree, that essentially Prussian river, drains a very large 

 basin. Reinforced by numerous streams rising in Saxony and Upper Lusatia, it 

 enters Brandenburg a short distance above Spremberg (10,295 inhabitants), and 

 then flows through Kotthus (25,594 inhabitants), an important railway centre, 

 with large cloth- mills, furniture factories, lignite mines, and carp ponds. The 



Fig. 185. — Magdeburg. 

 Scale 1 : 120,000. 



2 Miles. 



neighbouring towns, including Finstencakle (6,917 inhabitants), to the west, in 

 the basin of the Little Elster, are likewise engaged in the manufacture of cloth. 



Having ramified into numerous branches whilst passing through the Spreewald 

 the Spree is once more gathered in a single bed near Luhhen (5,387 inhabitants), 

 and then traverses lake after lake. In this portion of its course it only passes a 

 single town of over 5,000 inhabitants, namely, Furstenwalde (9,679 inhabitants). 



