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FICHTELGEBIRGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FICHTELGEBIRGE , a See also:

mountain See also:group of See also:Bavaria, forming the centre from which various mountain ranges proceed,—the Elstergebirge, linking it to the See also:Erzgebirge, in a N.E., the See also:Frankenwald in a N.W., and the Bohmerwald in a S.E. direction. The streams to which it gives rise flow towards the four See also:cardinal points,—e.g. the See also:Eger eastward and the See also:Saale northward, both to the See also:Elbe; the Weisser See also:Main westward to the See also:Rhine, and the Naab southward to the See also:Danube. The See also:chief points of the See also:mass are the See also:Schneeberg and the Ochsenkopf, the former having a height of 3448, and the latter of 3356 ft. The whole See also:district is See also:pretty thickly populated, and there is See also:great abundance of See also:wood, as well as of See also:iron, See also:vitriol, See also:sulphur, See also:copper, See also:lead and many kinds of See also:marble. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in theiron mines, at forges and blast furnaces, and in See also:charcoal burning and the manufacture of blacking from firewood. Although surrounded by See also:railways and crossed by the lines See also:Nuremberg-Eger and See also:Regensburg-Oberkotzau, the Fichtelgebirge, owing principally to its raw See also:climate and bleakness, is not much visited by strangers, the only important points of See also:interest being Alexandersbad (a delightfully situated watering-See also:place) and the See also:granite See also:labyrinth of Luisenburg. See A. See also:Schmidt, Fii.hrer durch See also:des Fichtelgebirge (1899) ; See also:Daniel, Deutschland; and See also:Meyer, Conversations-Lexikon (1904).

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