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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Thechief crops are oats, wheat, barley, beet and hops ; butthe summers are sufficiently warm for vines and maizeto ripen. In the south the land is rather infertile, andis largely devoted to rye (the chief Bohemian graincrop), potatoes (the staple food of the inhabitants), andto pasture. AH the highlands are forested, and provide not onlylarge quantities of timber, but also pulp for the paper-mills of Pilsen and Prague. Bohemia is exceedingly rich in minerals, so that ithas become one of the chief industrial regions of CentralEurope. Coal and iron are mined near Pilsen andPrague, and are largely used in manufactures basedupon the products of the surrounding areas. Thus, bothare engaged in brewing (barley and hops), paper-making(pulp), leather-manufacturing (hides from southernpastoral lands), sugar-refining (beet), as well as engineer-ing, and particularly in the making of agriculturalimplements. Important beds of lignite occur in thenorth-west, and have aided the growth of many Indus-
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232 EUROPE tries, the best known of which is perhaps the porcelainindustry of Karlsbad. This is dependent upon thekaohn derived from the granitic rocks found in thatdistrict. Karlsbad and Marienbad are noted for theirmineral springs. Coal, found in the north-east, as wellas power from mountain streams, is used at ReicJtenbergand other towns at the foot of the Riesen Gebirge(= Giant Mountains) for the manufacture of cotton andwoollen goods. Moravia is a smaller counterpart of Bohemia, but itsslope is towards the Danube, to which it is drainedby the March. The climate and agricultural productsresemble those of Bohemia. Moravia is also an in-dustrial region. The chief coalfield lies in tlie north-east, where a portion of the Silesian coalfield (see p.220) extends into Moravia. Many towns are engagedin cotton, wool and iron manufacturing. Bnhin, thechief city, occupies a central position, and is engaged inall these industries. (2) The Eastern Alps. The physical map shows that towards the

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