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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPREE , a See also:

river of See also:Prussia, See also:Germany, rising in the See also:district of Upper See also:Lusatia, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, See also:close to the Bohemian frontier, and flowing nearly due See also:north past See also:Bautzen, See also:Spremberg and See also:Cottbus, dividing between the first two towns for a See also:time into two arms. Below Cottbus the river splits into a network of channels, and swings See also:round in a big See also:curve to the See also:west forming the See also:peculiar marshy region (30 M. See also:long and 3 to 6 m. wide) known as the See also:Spreewald. Having returned to its predominant direction, it turns W.N.W., and passing See also:Furstenwalde and See also:Kopenick threads See also:Berlin in several arms, and joins the See also:Havel at See also:Spandau. Its length is 227 M. of which 112 are navigable; the See also:area of its drainage See also:basin is 366o sq. m. It is connected with the See also:Oder by the See also:Friedrich Wilhelm or Mullrose See also:Canal made in 1862–1868, which is 17 M. long, and by the Oder-Spree Canal, made in 1887–1888, and with the Havel by the Berlin-Spandau See also:Navigation Canal, 51 m. long, and by the Teltow Canal completed in 1905.

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