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EUEOPEAM RIVERS. 
THE Ei.BE. 
Not far from the source of the above 9 j 
principality of Javer, im Silesia, the Elbe 
Giants' Mountain, ft divides Dresden, ^yhid', 
Saxony, into the old and new towns, between 
K a communication by a stone bridge, three j^;ngi‘V 
hundred feet, (nearly three-fourths of a 
ki breadth eighty-five feet, provided with e>o lishf 
Meissen, ten miles north-west of t!i'‘ 
situated on this river, over which is a 
stone piers, but having a wooden sui>erst 
bridge is considered as a roaster-piece of art, uw jU? 
whicii is three hundred and seventy-five feet n 
kept together by a single wooden peg. d*’ 
Boundary of Brandenburgh toward the ^ io ^ R 
receives the Havel. It is the principal t 
Saxony. At Hamburgh it becomes of suen,^^ 
depth as to receive large ships. It discharges 
flae German Ocean by the fortress of Gluksta ■ ^ 
THE LOIKE. 
.b»> 
;d. 
Of the principal rivers have - 
France, the Loire is the most considerable, 
,tii‘ 
than the Rhone. It rises In 
the Ceveiines 
Li^wer Languedoc, and takes a course nortli a^ 
passing by uie city ot Orleans. It thence p dis^'.'kj 
imd south-west cour.se, by Tours and Ang^ , ./j 
Itself into the bay ot Biscay, forty nule^^ ^ 
Its entire course, comprehending its windio^a (ty 
IIS enure cuui.se, - jj i- 
at five hundred miles;, and hi its y 
Allier, Cher, Iiidre, Creuse, Sienne, and . ijfiJ 
• *1 .1 m _t 1 Vv'll’ 
municates with the Seine by the. cinieL ps 
Orleans. In November, 179^, h 
kiid a very large extent of country under w- 
THE GAllONNE. 
Tats river rises at the foot of 
af 
JUuigue 
in ' f 
tlie Pyrenees,^ 
IS UVC-1 liai-i. ... — J ,j,e - ,p- 
Cominges, and becoine.s navigable on 
juuiguedoe, being joined by many rivers ,-ri 
posses Toulouse and Bordeaux, below whic 
