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Wurtembci-g.] G E 11 M A N T.
pines ; turf is alfo dug there, particularly near Schwenmgen, Hindelfingen,
Wildbad and Schopfoch, which makes up for the fcarcity of wood. Great
profits are a!fo made by graziery, particularly in the Black-forefl, but the
largefl: breeds of flieep here are found on the Alb. Moft parts of the country
abound in game. In the valley of St. Chrißopber, near Fnidcnßaät and
near Konigfwart in the valley of Mz/rj, are mines of filver and copper. That
at Kouigi'lcin in the Rchierzau, near the convent of Alpirfpach, yields filver,
and that at Guttach near Hzrnherg copper. Iron alfo is found at KoJiigibronn
and Morgeljletien, and alfo in Liuhcigs Thai ztDutflingcn, as likewife in the
country of Schiltach at Ahlen and Fluorn; but not in fufficient quantities to
fupply the country, infomuch that the iron oi Mompelgardh imported there.
Alpirfpach and the Reinerzau afford cobalt ; and fulphuris likewife met with
in the neighbourhood of Bahlingcn, Hcubach, Boll, and elfewhere; many
parts alfo yield coal. Snlz has fome fallne fprings. Of minerals the 'Terra
ßgillata, which is reckoned preferable to that oi Malta; and a fine clay for
earthen-ware are particularly found near Heydenheifn, as alfo porcelain
in the manor of Hornberg, which is worked at Calw j fine variegated marbles,
fome of which are equal to thofe of Italy, and remarkably tranfparent
alabafter near Enzivcyhbigett ; agate cryftalline pebbles, which cut glafs,
at Bulach; black amber on the Alb, as alfo at Kirchheim, near the Teckherge
and at Boll; together with fine mill-ftones at Uppcr-En/ingen, Sec.
Among the baths at IVurtcmberg the moft celebrated is that of the Wildbad;
the other baths here are thofe of the Zeller Bad, the Hirfchbad at Stiittgard,
the Sulzbad at Canjladter, the Bolkrbad, the Cappe?ierbad at Licbenzell, the
Laiiterbad at Freudenßadt, the Krahebad at Alpirfpach, the Gcycrbad at
Urach, and the Rictenauerbad at Backnang. The moft noted mineral fprings
here are the Goppinger, the Teinacher, the Berger near Cantjladt, the Klein,
or Lcffcr Engftinger, at Bfullingen, and the Gonninger. The rivers which
have their rife in and water this dutchy, have already been fpoken of in the
articles of the Alb and Schivarzivahi in the introdudion to Sicabia. The
principal of thefc is the Neckar, in Latin the Nicer, or Nicrus, which riles
near Sclnven?iingen in the manor of Duttlingcn, dividing the dutchy from
fouth to north, and joining the Rhine below Manheim in the lower Palatinate.
Omitting the other fmaller rivers which it receives within the dutchy,
it is increafed by the Enz as united with the Nagold, and alfo by the Fils
and Retns. Duke Charles Lewis caufed it to be made navigable from Cantßadt.
The Enz likewife admits velTels as far as Vaykingcn.
§. 5. The number of inhabitants in ihis dutchy is known to prccifion,
an exatl enquiry being made every year by the general fuperintendants, and
reported to the annual Synod. In the year 1754 were numbered 477,115
fouls, and they have hitherto been obferved to increafe. In the dutchy are
fixty-eight cities and towns, exclufive of that part of Widdern belonging X.o
the duke, with about 1200 boroughs, market-towns, villages and hamlets.
Vol. V. A a . The
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