L ak e s .
Cliiem See.
Mountains.
H a r tz .
CM'em See in Upper Bavaria, about 14 British miles in length by hye iu
breadth, fo me times largely ftyled the fea.:;of Bavaria. That circle, like
mod mountainous, countries, alfo fontaius many other lakes of final ler
account.
The mod northern mountains in Germany are thofe o f the Hartz,
called the Brocken or Bloqklberg.* Thefe mountains rife in the form
of an amphitheatre, the higheft being what is called the great Blockf-
b e fg ; which, (while the others fare cbySred with pines and birch, thus
uniting the ancient confufioig of foreft and mountain,) only prefents
white ftinted bruffiwobd 1 and the fnow fometimes remains till mid-
fLimrner, and even longer.in the northern cavities. On the fummit is
a final! hövël, a retreat for thofe who afcend. The river: life fifes
from the.bottom ; and other .ftreams fpring from the hills to the N. W.
and to the E.:, which afford many medical herbs! The height of the
great Brocken is by the barometer 3021 T eet; and:the f?n$e Brocken
2 7 I 3 * I .
In Weftphalia there are fdrne hills near Minden;* and in the duchy
of the fame name, bordering on Heffia, are the mountains of Winterberg,
Aftenberg, Schlofsbefg, and others.5 The Heffian territories’ may
Be regarded as generally mountainous, efpecially towards the rförtfi.
The range of Meifner'" contains a «*oal ïhinér under which is a bed of
petrified wood.6 To the north of Caffel are many high mountains, as
the Stauffenberg, the fummit of which is called Bartelfpopf, and the
'Gameberg'towards Munden. In the Heffian territories are alfo the-
bergs of Döerh, Behren, Schrecklen, Guden,’ Valken, all in the diftridfc
o f Zieremberg, with many in the S. E. of E elfberg; not to mention
the hilly foreft of Habichtfwald. Thence S. W. towards thé' Rhine
are feveral confiderable hills, among which may be mentioned thofe in
the weft of Wetterau, and the feven hills near the RhineValmoft.opppfite
to Andernach ; with the ridge of Heyrich which protedts the vines of
Rhinègau. To the eaft of Frankfort on the Mayn are the hilly foreft
* Botching, x . 251.’ 8
* Rielbeck, iii. 1 17, fays that he did not o b fe rv e o n e ' Mil from Hamburgh to Embden, nor
from thence to Hanover 5 and in Wettphalia the heaths are more barren than thofe o f Jutland.,'
s Jb. viii. 8-9. Berg in German fignifies a mountain ; and is rather a fuperfluous addition. ’
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of'Sp'efffftbfwith the • metallic heigbfstpf Fuld# and •Hehnebej'g f aod Mountain*.
that river fprmgs from the remarkable mountain, of Fichtelberg, or the Fichtelberg.
mountain of pines, near 22 Britifh geographical miles in length, and
16 in . breadth,, diverfified with defarts, precipices, high rpfcks, and
inartlies.7 The fummits have various names, the Ochfenkopf being
reputed the higheft. The lake called Fichtcl See is an a cavity of this
mountain, called the See Loh ;* but is of little extent, being only re- .
markable as the fouice oft the White M:ayn. ,-Other parts of this,memo-
rable mountain givexrifeydithe Eger, Wjlnqli'irons/.ta tbc E., and <r thé Sala
and Nab fiowi-ng to -the N. and 8.
But the mo ft celebrated mountains, in that part of Germany which
lies,to the N;:.of the Mayn, are; the Erzgèberg, or - Metallic Mountains,
which- rife to the N. E. of the Fichtelberg,. running, between Bohemia
■and Saxony, but fupplyin.g Both countries with filver, tin, and Other
Hietals. ffhe, Erzgeberg.vare .yipt ^ ij^njarikaMe ypt^cq^tain Erzgèberg^
Hiqqh grapite like thofe-of the Hartz,and Heffia5. with gnpifs,,in which
mqff ;of the Saxon- and, Bohemian* mines- ars fqurid,| limeflone
aECo appears-; -aiid in, Opper Lufatia-an,'entipe m,oUntainris(lf@uu4
of filicedius fchiftus, while Flinzberg confiftsf^aEnóff entirely jofcniillfi
wMte: quarti;“ Mifnia oontains mo-untaihs* of pitchftone; and. that
ftrong primaeval lubftanc^J called' hornblende, which approaches..'to the
nature o f iron, is found, in mighty ftr^a. In Atm-g^land, near Avgt*
bach, appears’ thé famous topaz rock, confiding of pale topazes in hard
lithomarga.; Micaceous fchiftus and Date alfo form portions of the
■Saxon mountains ; with large mades of trap and bafalt, often imbedded
in the gneifs, which likewffè^cohtains fftata Óf ferpentiUe. Hornblende;,
flaté, and fa-ndftone, both calcAheodS and fijicèoüs, alfo contribute-to this
noted chain. Thofe of Heffia prelent nearly the fame opulence
of primary and fecoridary fubftances : and a fummit .of tho.Meifncr, as
already mentioned, confifts of bafa-lt refting o n , coal. In the Hartz,.
7 lb . ix . 1 7 1 . I Reckoning the German, geographical mile o f fifteebt'o the degree, as equator»
four B r itifli.' T h e Trench traiiflator o fB u fch in g has been very cafelcfs iii rendering; thfc- miles,
Rielbeck, iii. 165. deferibes f i ie Spefflrf knd p. 199 tlie view.from Aikpniger: (about len tniles
' N . o f Fraiikförlt) extending about 50 miles in every diriffi^nt’
' • The..Gerraan Lob o f Loch, a cavity, is the parent o f the Scotifii L o ch , a lake.
s Kirwan. G c o l.E f .1 7 4 - . r 7 6 .
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