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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Eifel

Britannica 11th

EIFEL, a district of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, between the Rhine, the Moselle and the frontier of the grand duchy of Luxemburg. It is a hilly region, most elevated in the eastern part (Hohe Eifel), where there are several points from 2000 up to ...

Vol. 9, pp. 133-133 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Eider

Britannica 11th

... f ever exceeds five) is laid the down is added. Generally the eggs and down are EIFEL— EILDON HILLS Uken at intervals of a few days by the owners of the " eiderfold," and the birds are thus kept depositing both during the whole season; but some experience is n ...

Vol. 9, pp. 132-133 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Euskirchen

Britannica 11th

... of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on a plateau lying to the E. of the Eifel range, at the junction of railways from Cologne and Bonn and 10 m. W. of the latter. Pop. (1905) 10,285. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and its industries ...

Vol. 9, pp. 956-956 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0