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Svvabia.]
GERMANY.
§. 9. In the middle ages Sicabia was divided into a great number of
Gaus, in Latin Fagi, the nair.es of feme of which are ftill in ufe, as the
Algau, Alpengau, Argau or Ergau, the Argoigau, Baar, Brenzgau, Brcttacbau,
Brettigau, Brifgau, Burgau, Cktgau, Craichgaii which (properh'
lies betwixt Svjabia and the lower Palatinate, and contains the leffer Gaus
of Schimecbgau, Enzingau or E7izgmi, and Salzgau) Donogau, Gleinjgati,
Hegau, Jaxtgau, Ilej-gau, Rochtngau or Rochergau, Linzgau, Murgau or
Murachgau, Nagcldgau, to which once belonged alfo Walgau, Ncbclgau,
Niebelgau, Ortenau, Rheingau, das Ries, SchuJJ'engau, Sulmgau, Thurgau,
Wtniigau or Wiringau, Zabernachau or Zabergau, Zurichgau, &c,
§. 10. The greateft part of Swabta belongs at prefent to the Circle cf
that name; a confiderable part aUb to that oi Au/lria, (See vol.iv, in thedcfcription
of th^Außrian countries in S^yabia ;) and a lefTer part to the Upper
Circle of the Rhine, (See above the defcription of Strasburg, Fulda, Naf-
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fau, 2^n6. Hanau-Lichtenberg;) a fmall trait alfo of the dutchy of A'i'z/i'?/;-^
along the Danube projects beyond the Circle oi Bavaria into S-ivabia ; and
this forms the diftridts of the dutchy of Swabia. The nobility immediately
dependent on the Empire are alfo poffeircu of confiderable eftates and lordfliips
in Swabia.
Of the Circle of S JV AB I yl
in
particular,
§. I. ^T^ H E Circle oi Swabia, which, though it comprehends not all,
-* yet contains the greateft part of Schwabenland, was firft reprefented
in a map by Nie. Sartß'on and iiis fon William, which was the bafis
of all the fucceeding maps ot tiiis Circle, publifhed both in HJland and
Swabia ; though not without making feme ufe alfo ofthat drawn by PtiYr
Willius, which was publiflicd bv Matthew Wagner in the year 1689, and
was again republillied with additions in 1714 by Bartholomcei ; and was copied
by Leopold without acknowledging the name of its author. Another
general map alfo compofed by Humer was publiiLed by George Bodeuber,
and afterwards by ^//vrf'i^tY/^. In the year 1704 de I'If.e put forth a map
which was very different from all the preceding ones, and an elegant copy
of it wa? publiflied by Wcljf. This was fucceeded by Captain Micbal's
larger and more accurate map of this country which was printed by Seutter
on nine leaves : but that alfo admitting of fome amendments, profeflbr Hcfe
contracted it with his corrections ; and in this form it was publilhed in one
leaf in the year 1743 by Hoinanns heirs. Though the profelTor's map is
undoubtedly the beft we have at prefent, yet does it in fome refpedts ftand
in need of the fame kind offices which he performed to Captain MicbaFs.
The neweft large map of eight leaves by Kolleffcl, engraved by Ffeff'el
fince.