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438 GERMANY. [Onolzbach.
§. 3. In it are, indeed, fome fandy and mountainous tradls, but this
country, taken in general, is better than that of Bayreuth, abounding in
corn, tinkel, or fpclt, as ah^o in barley and oats, together with the fruits
of the earth and trees, and likewife in tobacco, having down all along the
May?izUo a good produd of wine. On account of the good paftures here
its breed of cattle alfo is excellent. There are likewife here all forts of
game and filh, together with fome medicinal fprings. In the upperprefedlurate
of Hobentrudingen is found marble, and in fome places alfo
iron-mines. On other mine-works no money is laid out here. The principal
river of this country is at firft called the Retzat, and rifes partly in
this principality above Upper-Dachftetto?, where it is alfo called the Under,
or Franconian-Retzat, and partly in the county of Pappenhe'uri, not far from
Detienhei)7i, where it is termed the Upper, or S'wabian. Both thefe rivers
unite, not far from Genmnd, upon which this united river bears the name
of Rednitz, in Latin Radcmtia, and receives into it, below Fürth, the
Pcgnitz, alter which it is called by fome the Regnitz, but hy others flill the
Rednitz, and falls into the Mayn in the bifliopric of Bamberg. The yllt-
7/1 id: I his its rife in the Under-latid of Bayreuth, and that in the prefeiturate
of Mark-Burgbernheim, which belongs to the upper-amt of Hcheneck, entering
foon after into the principality o{ Onolzbach, and running through the
upper part of the biihopric or Aichjladt into the county of Pappenhc'un. The
yagß, or Jaxt, comes out of the princely provofliliip of Ekvangen, and
paflcs through a traft of thl? country into the county of Hokenlobe. The
JVornitz, or Wernitz, hr-S its rife in the county of Hohenlobe, not far from
Frankenau and Sckiliingtftirfi. Jn the principality of Onolzbach it receives
into it the ^uhz, after v.'hich it paffes on into the county of Oettingen. The
Tauber comes out of the territory of Rothenburg, and paffes through this,
principality into the bifliopric of PVurzburg. The Mayn only waHies a fn; all
part oi this country.
§.4. This principality contains in it fixteen boroughs and feventeen
market-towns.
§. 5. The whole country profeffes the Proteflant dodrine and form of
worfnip taught by Luther. The preachers here are divided into nine decanates,
which are held at CraUß:eim, Feuchtivang, Gunzenhaufen, Langenzenn,
Lenterß:aufen, Sehwabach, Uffenheim, JVaffertrudingen and JVeimerßieim. At
Scbwabach is a colony of French Cahinijh, which has a church of its own
and enioys the free exercife of its religion.
§.6. At Ansbach is a gymnafium illußre, and in the towns are feme fmall
Latin fchools.
§. y. The inhabitants here fubfift by the breeding of cattle, by tillage and
the culture of wine and tobacco. In the towns are divers mechanics
and manufadlures, among the latter of which are principally to be reckoned
the m'anufaftures of tapiftry, flockings, cloth, fluffs, gold and filvcr lace, as
alfo