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INTRODUCTION
TO THE
CIRCLE
O F
T H E
UPPER RHINE.
§.i. the upper Circle of the Rhine, which is alfo fimply called the
OFCircle of the Rhine-, the fullell and beft chart hitherto publifhed
is that by Gerhard Valk in two Iheets. Thofe of Viffcher, de Wit
and Homann, the latter of which, in the Atlas of Germany, compofes the
ninety-fccond chart ; as alfo thofe executed by other hands, are remarkably
fuperficial and defedive.
§. 2. From this Circle, almoft all lands and ftates, fituate on the other
fide of the Rhine, have been gradually taken away by France; that is to
fay, the greateft part of the bifhopric of Strafburg, as alfo thofe of Metz,
'Tull and P'^erdun, together with the archbifliopric of Bifatir, or Befan^on^
the princely abbey of Murbach, the abbey of Mimßer, in the Gregorienthale,
and thedutchy oi Lorrain (which at firfi was reckoned in the Circle of the
Upper Rhine, but afterwards was annexed to that oi Burgundy, fee vol. 2. p.420.
the county of Bitfch, the land-vogtey oi Hagenau, which comprized the ten
ancient Imperial cities of Alface, together with the Imperial cities oi Metz,
Tull, Verdun and Straßurg. This Circle is at prefent terminated by the Electoral
Circle of the Rhine, by which it is alfo properly interfered,
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the Lower
Circle