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The one begins in the circle ofBudweis, and terminates in the 
Danube; the other extends from the county of Prachin to 
the Muldau, and is only 10 miles in length. 
SCHWARZENBERG, a small town of Germany, in Han¬ 
over, duchy of Luneburg, near the Elbe. 
SCHWARZENBORN, a small town of the west of 
Germany, in Hesse-Cassel; 8 miles east of Ziegenhayn. 
Population 900. 
SCHWARZENBURG, a petty town in the west of 
Switzerland, in the canton of Bern; 8 miles east of Freyberg. 
SCHWARZENFELS, a petty place in the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Hesse Cassel; 17 miles east of Fulda. Population 
700. 
SCHWARZ WALD, a large range of mountains in the 
south-west of Germany, extending from north to south 
through tne territory of Baden, and part of that of Wirtem- 
berg. It consists more of elevated plains or table-land, than 
of insulated peaks; yet several of its mountains, such as 
the Feldberg, the Belchen, and the K'andel, are between 
4000 and 5000 feet above the level of the sea. Without 
equalling in metallic riches the Hartz and some other ranges 
in Germany, they contain some valuable minerals, while their 
sides are covered with plantations or pasture grounds. Great 
quantities of timber are annually felled in this track, and 
sent down the Rhine to Holland. 
SCIIWARZWALD is also the name of a department in 
the west of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, lying adjacent to 
Baden. Its territorial extent is 640 square miles, its popula¬ 
tion 105,000. Comprising a track lying entirely in the 
Black Forest, it is mountainous, woody, and more calculated 
for pasturage than agriculture. The chief town is Calw. 
SCHWARZWASSER, the name of five rivers of Silesia, 
three of which flow into the Oder; one 1 mile east of 
Breslau; another 1 mile east of Maltsch; a third 3 
miles north-north-east of Wurtemberg; the fourth joins the 
Katzbach near Lieonitz; and the fifth joins the Stober near 
Bielitz. There is also a Schwarzwasser in Saxony, which 
flows info a lake near Torgau. 
SCHWARZWASS, a river of Saxony, in the circle of 
the Erzgebirge, which falls into the Schneeberg Mulda. 
SCHWARZWASSER, or Strumie, a small town of 
Austrian Silesia; 13 miles north-north-east of Teschen. 
Population 1300. 
SCHWATZ, a town of the Austrian states, in Tyrol, on 
the Inn, and the capital of a large district, comprehending 
the Lower Innthal, with the part of the duchy of Salzburg 
lately added to it. The town has 4000 inhabitants, is well 
built, and contains two good churches. It has some ma¬ 
nufactures, and in the environs are mines of copper and 
silver, which were formerly extremely productive, having in 
the 16th century given employment to many thousand work¬ 
men. The copper mines are still productive, but those of 
silver hardly defray the expense of working; 16 miles east 
of Innspruck, and 56 south of Munich. Lat. 47. 22. 50. 
N. long. 11. 39. 30. E. 
SC1IWEDT, a small town of Prussia, in the province of 
Brandenburg, on the Oder; 53 miles north-east of Berlin. 
It is neatly built, and has a palace called Monplaisir, which 
belonged formerly to a younger branch of the royal family 
of Prussia; but the male line having failed, it is now the 
property of the crown. The town has 3700 inhabitants 
chiefly Lutherans, and some manufactures oftobacco, starch, 
gunpowder, and leather. Lat. 53. 5. N. long. 14. 28. E. 
SCHWEIDN1TZ, a principality of Lower Silesia, bounded 
on the south by Bohemia, and included in the Prussian pro¬ 
vince or government of Reicbenbach, with a territoral ex¬ 
tent of not quite 1000 square miles. It contains above 
180,000 inhabitants. The surface is partly hilly and 
partly level : it produces corn in large quantities; and 
the flocks of sheep are numerous; but its great population 
arises from its containing a number of manufacturing 
villages. The inhabitants of these prepare cottons, linen, 
and woollen, to a large annual amount. 
SCHWEIDNITZ, a town of Prussian Silesia, the chief 
place of the preceding principality, and well known in the 
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operations of the war of 1756. It stands in a pleasant 
country. Its fortifications are of old date, but were re¬ 
duced into a regular form by the Prussians in 1748. The 
town also is modern, part of it having been burnt down in 
1716, and other parts destroyed in the sieges in the middle 
of the 18th century. The inhabitants, 8000 in number, 
are partly Catholics, but chiefly Protestants. They have 
considerable manufactures of woollen and linen, and on a 
smaller scale, of silk, leather, stockings, and paper. The 
breweries in this, as in other German towns, are extensive. 
In the disastrous war against Buonaparte, the defence of 
Schweidnitz was not in correspondence to the strength of the 
place, or to its former reputation: it surrendered on 7th 
February, 1807; 30 miles west-south-west of Breslau, and 
11 west north-west of Reicbenbach. 
SCHWEIG, a small town of the Prussian province of tire 
Lower Rhine, on the Moselle; 6 miles north-by-east of 
Treves. Population 1050. 
SCHWEIGERN, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Wirtemberg; 8 miles west of Heilbronn. Population 
1800. It is the residence of the counts of Neipberg. 
SCHWEIGERN, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Baden, principality of Leiningen; 2 miles east north¬ 
east of Boxberg. Population 1000. 
SCHWEIGERS, a small town of Lower Austria, in the 
quarter above the Mannhartsberg. Population 900. 
SCHWEIGHAUSEN, a large village in the east of France, 
department of the Lower Rhine. Population 1100. 
SCHWEINA, a small town of the interior of Germany, 
in the duchy of Saxe-Meinungen; 6 miles east-by-north 
of Salzungen, and 7 north-north-west of Schmalcalden. 
Population 800. 
SCIIWEINAU, a large village of Bavarian Franconia, 
near Nuremberg, with 1000 inhabitants. 
SCHWEINFURT, a town of Bavarian Franconia, on the 
Maine; 23 miles north-north-east of Wurzburg. Popula¬ 
tion 5200. The present town was founded in the 13th 
century, and surrounded with a wall, which still re¬ 
mains. The inhabitants are chiefly Lutherans, and tire 
grammar school was founded by the great protector of 
Protestant Germany, Gustavus Adolphus. The Maine is 
navigable here, and is crossed by two bridges. The environs 
produce corn, vines, and tobacco. Schweinfurt was long a 
free town of the empire, and was given to Bavaria in 1802. 
SCHWEINITZ, a large village of Prussian Silesia; 90 
miles north-west of Breslau, and 5 west-south-west of Grun- 
berg, with 1200 inhabitants. 
SCHWEINITZ, a small town of Bohemia; 14 miles 
south-south-east of Budweis, and 85 south of Prague. Popu¬ 
lation 1000. 
SCHWEINITZ, a small river of Germany, in Upper 
Lusatia, which falls into the Spree. 
SCHWEINWART, a small town of Lower Austria, in 
the quarter below the Wienerwald, with 1000 inhabitants. 
SCHWEITZ, or Schwytz, a canton in the interior of 
Switzerland, lying contiguous to the lakes of Zug and 
Lucerne. Its extent, including some additions made to if 
since 1803, is 466 square miles; its population hardly 30,000. 
It is surrounded by Alpine mountains, between which are a 
few valleys. In its interior is a chain of hills, in the form 
of a large section of an ellipsis. The chief mountains are 
Rigi in the south-west corner, above 6000 feet in height; 
Pragel in the south-east, above 5500; and Mytten, situated 
between the two, and having an elevation of 6300 feet. 
Here are, however, no glaciers, and no snow In the autumn 
months, but the soil and climate are filter for pasturage than 
for tillage, and the chief wealth of the inhabitants consists 
in their cattle. Manufactures are almost unknown; the 
cotting spinning introduced since the end of the 18th cen¬ 
tury, being carried on to a very limited extent. The religion 
of the inhabitants is the Catholic: their manners are very 
primitive. It was here, in the beginning of the 14th cen¬ 
tury that the standard of Swiss liberty was first erected, and 
this petty canton had the honour of giving a name to the 
confederation. The public revenue is very small, and arose 
formerly 
