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HefTe.] GER M A N T. 35
lowing rivers ; ijiz. the La?i, or Lahn, al(b called the Lelm, Lohn and
Lahuj in Latin Latius and Logana, which run into the TVeßcr-ivalde^ in the
Principality of Najjau-Siegeti near a farm called Lahnhoiiß, and paffing
through part of the county oilVitgenflein, enters Hcjj'e, where it is rejoined
by other fmaller ftreams ; namely, the Ohm, Marbach, or Ketzerbach, the
Zweprau, Sahbutte, Witfeck, Beber, Dill, Wetz, JVeilbacb, Enn, Elb,
Aar, Erl and Muhlbach. After this it falls, near Cobleniz, into the Rhi7ie.
The Fulda comes from the bifhoprick of Fulda, receives the Edcr, which,
before it is increafed by the Schioalm, is but a fmall river ißuing from Upper
Hejfe, and at length joins the Werra, This lall: river, which has its fource
in the county and Principality of Jienneberg, was formerly known by the
name of Wtfaraha, Wtfuraha, IVefara and afterwards Wirraha, or Wirra j
infomuch that, contrary to the common opinion, it is not at Munden, where
it is joined by the Fulda, that it hrft has the name of Wefer, in Latin Vijurgis
; the Diemel, which, after watering the bidiopric of Paderborn, runs
alio into the Wejer.
j. 4. HeJfe, like many other parts of Germany, has ftates who are fum-^
moned to the Diets of the country. Thofe of Hejfe-Cajel are, firft, the
prelates, who are compofed of,
Firft, the commandery of the T'eutonic order
for Heffe, who refides at Marburg. Secondly, Of the rector and fenate of
the univerlity o^ Marburg, by virtue of its conventual lands. Thirdly, of the
four provofts of the canonries of Kauffungcn and Wetter, and the governors
of the hofpitals of //