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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LUNEBURGER See also:

HEIDE

HEIDE , a See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

Hanover, lying between the Aller and the See also:

ELBE (the Albis of the Romans and the Labe of the Czechs)

Elbe and intersected by the See also:

RAILWAYS

railways See also:

HARBURG

Harburg-Hanover and See also:

BREMEN

Bremen-See also:

STENDAL

Stendal. Its See also:

main See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character is that of a broad See also:

SADDLE (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Sattel, Dut. zadel, also in Russ. siedlo and Lat. sella, for sedla; it is not derived directly from Lat. sedile, which means a chair, but all the words are to be referred to the root sad-, which gives

saddle-back, See also:

RUNNING

running for 55 M. from S.E. to N.W. of a mean See also:

ELEVATION

elevation of about 250 ft. and attaining its greatest height in the Wilseder See also:

BERG (Ducatus Montensis)

Berg (550 ft.) at its See also:

NORTHERN

northern end. The See also:

SOIL

soil is See also:

QUARTZ

quartz See also:

sand and is chiefly covered with heather and brushwood. In the See also:

north, and in the deep valleys through which the streams descend to the See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, there are extensive forests of See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak, See also:

birch and See also:

BEECH

beech, and in the See also:

south, of See also:

FIR

fir and See also:

LARCH (from the Ger. Larche, M.H.G. Lerche, Lat. larix)

larch. Though the See also:

CLIMATE

climate is raw and See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good soil rare, the See also:

heath is not unfertile. Its main products are See also:

sheep—the celebrated Heidschnucken breed,—potatoes, bilberries, cranberries and See also:

HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

honey. The district is also remarkable for the numerous Hun barrows found scattered throughout its whole extent. See Rabe, See also:

Die Luneburger Heide and die Bewirthschaftung der Heidhofe (See also:

JENA

Jena, 1900) ; Kniep, Fz hrer durch die Luneburger Heide (Hanover, 1900) ; Linde, Die Luneburger Heide (See also:

LUNEBURG

Luneburg, 1905), and Kuck, Das alle Bauernleben der Luneburger Heide (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1906).

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