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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRIBRAM , a See also:

town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 39 m. S.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (190o), 13,576, together with the adjoining town-See also:ship of Birkenberg, 19,119, almost exclusively See also:Czech. It lies in a valley between the hills of Birkenberg and Heiliger See also:Berg, and in its neighbourhood are the See also:lead and See also:silver mines which belong to the See also:Austrian See also:government and are worked in nine shafts, two of which, the See also:Adalbert See also:shaft (3637 ft.) and the Maria shaft, (3575 ft.) are the deepest in the See also:world. The mines have been worked for several centuries, but their actual prosperity See also:dates from 1770, when the sinking of the Adalbert shaft began. They yield yearly an See also:average of 8o,000 lb of silver and 1900 tons of lead. At the See also:top of the Heiliger Berg (1889 ft.) is a See also:church with a wonder-working See also:image of the Virgin, which is the See also:chief See also:place of See also:pilgrimage in Bohemia.

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