Black Forest
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Black Forest. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a mountainous forest region about the head waters of the Rhine and the Danube. The name is a translation of the German Schwarz-wald. The region is from fifteen to thirty miles in width. It lies in Baden and Wurtemberg. The forest growth is chiefly of pine. Agriculture is confined to the plains. Cattle are raised on the hillsides. A large part of the region is given up to the raising of timber for which it is famous. Large rafts of logs are taken down the Rhine and marketed in Holland. The region is noted for a number of local industries, such as the making of tar, charcoal, and potash, but especially for the manufacture of watches, cuckoo clocks, and toys. The latter are made more cheaply here than elsewhere, and are exported to all parts of the world. A part of the cheap wooden toys sold in American shops are from the Black Forest. Under the caption "A Black Forest Pathway" an entertaining article on the Black Forest is to be had in Scribner's Magazine for August, 1909. 2026 Editor's Note: The Black Forest gave the world the cuckoo clock and a famous cherry gâteau — and in the 1980s it became the emblem of an environmental crisis, when acid rain from industrial sulphur left its conifers dying in a panic Germans called Waldsterben , "forest death." Emissions controls followed, and the forest has substantially recovered. (Ed: BR 2026-06-26)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a great forest, part of the hercynia silva of the Roman period. It is situated in Baden and Württemberg, near the source of the Danube.