Riesa
Germany, a town situated portant railway junction. One of the on the Elbe, in Saxony, 33 miles northharbor accommodates a great volume of finest steel and stone bridges in Germany spans the river at this point. The shipping, and considerable eat volume of the town. Pop. about 20,000. is carried on here. Iron foundries and ble shipbuilding machine shops add to the industries of is carried on here. Iron foundries and tains, a mountain range of Europe, sepatill it joins the Carpathians; but the tains, a mountain range of Europe, sepafrom Bohemia and Moravia, name is properly applied to that part of this range which lies between the sources name is properly applied to that part of the loftiest mountains of the N. or centhe loftiest mountains of the N. or cenbeing 5,257 feet high. The geological structure of the range consists of granite, there are coal and basaltic strata.