MIXINO. 



3G1 



the State yielding least of all. On the Rhine, in Saxony and "VVurttemberg, where 

 small properties preponderate, the land is more productive than in Posen, with its 



large estates.* 



Mining. 



Germany ranks next to England as a mining country. The coal mines of 

 Saarbrlicken, the Euhr, and Upper Silesia are almost inexhaustible — a very 



Fig. 208.— Augsburg. 



important fact when we consider that most of the factories use steam as a motive 

 power, that supplied by running streams being utilised only in the valleys of the 

 Vosges, the Black Forest, at the foot of the Ore and Giant Mountains, and in 

 Southern Bavaria, more especially near Augsburg, that town of fountains. 



* Average WMges of agricultural labourers in 1872: — Is. 6d. in summer, Is. Id. in winter. The 

 highest wages ('is. 7d. and 2s.) are paid near Bremen, the lowest fis. 4d. and T^d.) near Ojipeln, in 

 Silesia. 



