Identifier: chamberssencyclo07phil (find matches)
Title: Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Company Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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beautiful parts of Germany.The Rhine (q. v.) is navigable throughout its entirecourse in P., which it traverses from south to north,receiving numerous other rivers—as the Lahn, Wied,Sieg, Wupjjer, Ruhr, Lippe, Berkel, and Vechte onthe right; and on the left, the Ahr and the Moselle,the latter of which is navigable for more than 150miles within the Prussian dominions. The rivers ofP. are connected by numeious canals, the principalof which are the Neuer or Seckenburger, the Fried-richgraben, the Fiuow, Bromberger, and Friedrich Wil-helms, which unite the important districts of the Oderwith the Vistula ; the Spree and the Havel; and thePhinesche, which connects the latter river with theElbe, and those formerly belonging to Denmark (q. v.). Climate^ Products, ttv.—The climate of P. presentsgreat differences in the eastern and western prov-inces — the former being exposed to heavy snow-storms in the ^^inter, and great drought in thesummer, and with a mean annual temperature of 43^ V
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b «ii.ntiP„„ PRUSSIA. has a summer mean temperature of 61°. and winter,26^ F.; while the hitter, which have milder winters,and a lar;xer fall of rain, have a mean annual temper-ature of 49-5—summer, ea, and winter, 3.5 F. Agn^ifiilture and the rearin;^ of cattle constitute theprincipal sources of employment and wealth of therural population of the entire monarchy, and the statehas hitherto directed its unremitting attention to thefurtherance of the one, and the improvement of theother; abrogating onerous land-taxes, advancingmouev to lando\\Tiers, encouraging agricultural insti-tutions, introducing approved breeds of animals, andimproved farm instruments. &c. Wheat, rye, oats,barley, peas, millet, rape-seed, maize, linseed, tobacco,flax, hemp, hops, and chicory are extensively cultivated,and largely exported. The finest grain districts arethe Boriie. near Magdeburg, the low lands on the War-tha and Xetze, and on the Plone and Madue Lakes,the north-easteru parts of Foniei-a

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