PLAINS OF THE ELBE, ODER, AND VISTULA. 



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biitwhen Prussia first occupied it its population had sunk to 5,000 souls. Posen is 

 not only an important fortress, but also a great corn mart. It boasts of the 

 libraries of Count Paczyuski and the Society of Friends of Science, and of the 

 museum of Count Melzynski. In its cathedral several Kings of Poland lie buried, 

 but Gnesen (Gniezno, 11,206 inhabitants), in a region of lakes and woods to the 

 north-east, is the " holy " town of Poland, where the kings were crowned until 1320. 

 The Warthe below Posen gradually swerves round to the west. It is 

 joined by the Wclua, Avhich washes the walls of Rogascn (5,026 inhabitants). 



Fig. 197. — Stettin. 

 Scale 1 : 180,000. 



2 Miles. 



Beyond Schcerin (6,580 inhabitants) the Warthe enters the province of Branden- 

 burg, and flows through the industrious town of Lanchherg (21,379 inhabitants). 

 Nakel (5,651 inhabitants) is the only town of note on the Netze, which joins the 

 Warthe a few miles above Landsberg, for Sclmeklemiihl (9,724 inhabitants) and 

 Dcutsch-Krone (6,064 inhabitants), though both lying within its basin, are situate 

 on tributaries which enter it from the north. Towns become more numerous to 

 the west of Landsberg. In the Neumark (" New March "), to the north of the 

 Warthe, are Friedeherg (5,804 inhabitants), Soldiii (6,295 inhabit:ints), Arnswalde 



