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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEMEL, or N1EMEN

MEMEL, or N1EMEN , a See also:

RIVER

river of See also:

Russia and See also:

Prussia, rising in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

government of See also:

MINSK

Minsk at an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 58o ft. and flowing generally See also:

west as far as See also:

GRODNO

Grodno. Thence it runs See also:

north to See also:

Kovno, separating See also:

Poland from Russia, and at Kovno it turns west again, still dividing Poland from Russia, until it enters the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

East Prussia, through which it flows west and north-west past See also:

TILSIT

Tilsit for a distance of 70 M. and finally enters the Kurisches Haff by several arms. Of these, those principally used for See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation are the Russ, and its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch the Atmat. The Russ is connected with the outlet of the Kurisches Haff at Memel by a See also:

canal, while another canal links the Gilge See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm southward with the Pregel. Consider-able quantities of See also:

TIMBER

timber are floated down the Memel, and large amounts of See also:

corn shipped down it and its navigable tributary the Viliya. The lowlands of Tilsit are protected against inundation by dikes. See also:

TOTAL

Total length of the river, 490 m.; See also:

AREA

area of its See also:

basin, 34,950 sq. m. It is navigable for large vessels as far as Grodno. See H. See also:

Keller, Memel, Pregel and Weichselstrom (2 vols., See also:

Berlin, 1900) ; and Schickert, Wasserwege and Deichwesen in der Memelniederung (See also:

KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, 1901).

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