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416 GERMANY. [Culmbach.
graphical miles, and from the fource of the Saale in the captalnfliip of the
prefedturate of Wunßedel above IFctßhißadt^ quite to the town of Kcmnath
in the upper-palatinate ; or from north to fouth alio four miles. Its name
it has from the great number of pines with which it is covered ; but it
produces alfo fir and beech, and in fome places likewife oak, elm, and
lime. From this wood the peafants, living at and about the Ficbtelbcrg^
derive mod: of their fubfiftance, in regard that they burn it partly to coals,
and partly in winter bring it down in fledges to felL It is one of the higheft
mountains in all Germnfiy, containing in it many deferts and rocks, and
thofe very lofty, as alfo numbers of bogs and moraffes. The principal
eminences or mountains belonging to it are the Lojhurg or Liichpurg, in
which is the greatefl: number, and thofe too the mofl: unfurmountable rocks
or cliffs in the whole country, and in thefe are feveral cavities, as namely
the Coßein, and the lofty Farmleutcn, from which we have a free and very
exteniive profpedl ; the Ochjhikopf, which is reputed to be the highefl: part of
the Fichtelberg, and the Scbieeberg. On this lafl mountain on the border of
the upoer-palatinate, about three hours diftance to the weft of Wiinftedel
beyond the village of Vordorf, in a high defert called the See Lobe, is the
deep Fichtelfee, which is about one hundred and fifty-four paces in circumference,
but at prefent fo covered with mofs and bulrulhes that a perfon
may pafs over it.
Out of this See or lake, arifes the White-Mayn, which, near Steinhaufen
in the captainfhip of the prefedlurate of Culmbach, unites with the Redy
which receives its fource above Hornleinjreuth. After this union of their
waters thefe united ftreams obtain the fimple name of Mayn without any
adjunä:, and enter into the bifliopric of Bamberg. Out of the Fichtelfee
iffues alfo the Nabe, or Fichtelberg Wald-Nabe, which nigh Wildenau unites
its ftreams with the Heyd-Nabe, which arifes in the Fichtelberg out of what
is called the Najfen-Heyd, betwixt JVa7-)neti-Steinach and MuhlmeuJJel. The
Eger fifes between Gefrees and Bifchofgrun out of a mountain called the
Heyde, which forms a part of the Fichtelberg, and runs into Bohemia. The
Rojzlau, by which its waters are encreafed, comes alfo out of the Fichtelberg.
The Fichtelberg, Vogtland, and Thurifigiati Saale rifes at the Fichtelberg
in the Zellerwald, not far from the borough of Zelle, out of a fountain
there which is called the Saalbrunn, and runs into the Vogtland. The
Pegnitz rifes in the captainlhip of the prefefturate of Bayreuth) not far from
Moritzreuth, running through the territory of Nürnberg into the Rednitz,
which paffes through the Vnder-land into the bifliopric of Bamberg, and
there among other fmall ftreams receives into it alfo the Aijch, which takes
its rife in the Uw^/fr-/^;;^ of the principality of 5ß)'r^«/Ä. Thefe rivers abound
in many forts of good fifh,
§. 4. This principality contains In it fix head towns, as they are called,
together with ten others, and twenty-fix market-towns. The provincial
college