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was to be expected, however, the chief Black Forest trade 
wood; other productions sufficed for home consumption, but 
as the source of that well-being that even to the present day 
guishes the inhabitants. As the population grew larger, it 
necessary to seek some other means of subsistence, and the 
aple in 
‘ith Century clock-making was introduced, and, with the 
‘trade of musical boxes, has ever since employed a con- 
siderable population. 
of the lower orders in most other countries in Europe. The whole 
Secret of this prosperity lies in the rough and hardy education which 
now forgotten kept the people in a constant state of 
n and watchfulness. 
0 the race grew up, hardy, enduring and temperate, pro- 
and verty and separation from many things which rum 
“@ More luxurious tribes. 
the manufacturing industry of the Black Forest first 
ambition of each man was to found for himself a house, 
of many districts of the Forest commenced. In | 
