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GERMAN AND POLISH PROVINCES OF AUSTRIA. 



ry birds is a considerable branch of industry ; the breeding of silkworms is confined to the 

 southern parts. 



Innspruck-, the capital, has an active trade, and a seminary of learning. Population, 9,000. 

 Botzen^ or Bobzano^ has several manufactures and 4 annual fairs. Population, 8,080. Rove- 

 redo, on the Adige has manufactures of silk. Population 10,000. Riva, on the Lago di 

 Garda, has manufactures of iron and jews-harps, and a trade in corn. Population, 3,097. 

 Trent, on the Adige, is famous for a council held here in the beginning of the Reformation. 

 Population, 11,000. 



5. Kingdorii of Bohemia. This country is bounded north by Saxony and Silesia, east by Sile- 

 sia, Moravia, and the county of 

 Glatz, south by Austria, and Ba- 

 varia, and west by Saxony and 

 Bavaria. It contains 20,400 

 square miles, and 3,900,000 

 inhabitants. High mountains 

 inclose it on all sides ; the dif- 

 ferent ranges are called the 

 Sudetic, Moravian, Giant, 

 Woody, and Erzgebirge moun- 

 tains. The whole country re- 

 sembles an immense concavity 

 or basin, considerably elevated 

 above the level of the sea. The 

 Elbe receives all the waters of 

 this great basin, and bursting 

 through the Erzgebirge moun- 

 tains in the north, passes into 

 Saxony. The climate is de- 

 lightful. Italy itself has not a 

 more pleasant spring, and sum- 

 mer and winter are only an 

 agreeable variety of tempera- 

 lures ; the mountains shut out 

 every wind, and there are no lakes or marshes to infect 

 the air. The soil is equal to the climate, and yields 

 abundantly almost every production of the temperate 

 region. The mountains are covered with pines, and 

 other trees, and in the interior are extensive forests 

 of oak. In the mountains are wild boars, hares, 

 lynxes, bears, wolves, foxes, badgers, otters, beavers, 

 and martens. Wild fowl are in plenty. Mines of 

 gold, silver, iron, tin, copper, cobalt, and coal, exist 

 here. Marble, and many sorts of precious stones, 

 are also produced. The rive-'' Moldau furnishes 

 beautiful pearls. 



Prague, the capital Bohemia, is a large and 

 flourishing city, situated on both sides of the Moldau, 

 over which there is a splendid bridge of 16 arches. 

 It contains 48 churches, 16 monasteries, 9 syna- 

 gogues, "a number of elegant palaces, among which 

 alace of Wallenstein, and other public buildings. It is strong- 



Bohemian Woman. 



Bohemian Peasant. 



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are an imperial castle, and the 

 ly fortified with very extensive works 



The university is one of the oldest, and was long one 



of the most celebrated, in Europe ; its library contains 100,000 volumes. Prague is the cen- 

 tre of Bohemian commerce, and the depot of the active manufacturing district in which it is 

 situated. Population, 105,000, of which 7,500 are .lews. It is celebrated in history as the 

 residence of Huss, the Bohemian reformer, and the birthplace of his disciple, Jerome. 



Reichenberg, with 10,000 inhabitants, a flourishing town, with extensive manufactures of 

 cotton and woolen ; Budveif;, 6,000, with an active trade ; Jnachimsthal, 4,000, noted for iti 



