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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPESSART , a highland See also:

forest See also:country of See also:Germany, belonging mainly to the Bavarian See also:province of See also:Lower See also:Franconia, but in the See also:north to the Prussian province of See also:Hesse See also:Cassel, and it is bounded on the S. and W. by the See also:Main, on the E. by the Sinn and on the N. by the Kinzig and See also:Joss. The main See also:ridge of the formation, consisting of See also:gneiss, See also:granite and red See also:sandstone, runs from a point opposite Miltenberg, in a north-See also:westerly direction to the source of the Kinzig near Schliichtern—a distance of 45 M. --and attains its highest See also:elevation in the Geiersberg (1919 ft.), which lies north of the Rohrbrunn pass, through which runs the main road from See also:Aschaffenburg to Wiirzburg. The forest, with which it is densely covered, consists of See also:oak, See also:beech, ash and See also:fir, and the scenery, especially on the main See also:side, between Gemunden and Lohr, is impressive. The See also:climate is inclement in See also:winter and oppressively hot in midsummer. The inhabitants are engaged chiefly in' woodcutting, raf t- making and See also:quarrying, and most of the See also:timber is floated down to See also:Holland. See also:Cobalt, See also:silver, See also:lead and See also:copper are also worked, and the See also:southern and western slopes yield See also:wine of See also:good quality. This beautiful See also:tract of country until See also:recent years was comparatively little known to the tourist, but a See also:club (Spessart Klub) through the See also:establishment of See also:finger-posts and the issue of maps, has indicated the more interesting See also:tours to be followed. See Bucking, Der nordwestliche Spessart, geologisch auffgeno:nmen (See also:Berlin, 1893) ; Schober, Fi hrer durch den Spessart (Aschaffenburg, 1904) ; See also:Wolff, Der Spessart, sein Wirtschaftsleben (ibid., 1905).

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