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See also:MAIN (See also:Lat. Moenus) , a See also:river of See also:Germany, and the most important right-See also:bank tributary of the See also:Rhine. It has two See also:sources, the See also:Weisse Main (See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Main), which rises in the See also:Fichtelgebirge on the See also:east See also:side of the Ochsenkopf, and the Rote Main (Red Main), which, rising on the eastern slope of the Frankish See also:Jura, flows past See also:Bayreuth. They unite 3 M. below See also:Kulmbach, 9zo ft. above the See also:sea. Hence the river, already of considerable See also:size, pursues a See also:north-See also:westerly direction, skirting the spurs of the Frankish Jura in a pleasant valley. At Lichtenfels the river takes a See also:south-westerly course, which it retains until entering the- fertile See also:basin of See also:Bamberg. Here it receives from the south-east the See also:waters of its See also:chief tributary, the See also:Regnitz, and enters upon its See also:middle course. Its direction is now again north-See also:west, and meandering through pleasant vales and pastures it passes Hassfurt and reaches See also:Schweinfurt. Its course is now almost due south to See also:Ochsenfurt, when it again proceeds north-west. Continuing in this direction amid See also:vine-clad hills, it washes the walls of the university See also:city of See also:Wurzburg, and thence, dividing the See also:forest-clad ranges of the See also:Spessart and the See also:Odenwald, reaches Gemunden. Here it is joined from the right by the Frankish See also:Saale and, turning abruptly south, receives at Wertheim the beautiful Tauber. Feudal castles and See also:medieval towns now See also:crown its See also:banks, notably, Freudenberg and Miltenberg. From the latter it proceeds due north to See also:Aschaffenburg, whence passing See also:Frankfort it pours its yellowwaters into the See also:green waters of the Rhine just above See also:Mainz. The Main has a See also:total length of 310 M. and drains a basin of approximately 1 r,000 sq. m. It is navigable from the confluence of the Regnitz, 240 M. from its mouth, for See also:barges and other small See also:craft, and through the See also:Ludwig See also:Canal is connected with the See also:Danube.
See See also:Ulrici, Das Maingebiet in seiner natiirlichen Beschaffenheit (Kassel, 1885); E. See also:Faber, Zur Hydrographie See also:des Maingebiets (See also:Munich, 1895), and Lill, Mainthal, Main and Mainschiffahrt (See also:Berlin, 1904).
End of Article: MAIN (Lat. Moenus)
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