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ERZGEBIRGE, a mountain chain of Germany, extending in a W.S.W. direction from the Elbe to the Elstergebirge along the frontier between Saxony and Bohemia. Its length from E.N.E. to W.S.W. is about 80 m., and its average breadth about 25 m. The southern declivi ...

... ful violet crystals of fluor-apatite which occur in the veins of tin-ore in the Erzgebirge, and of the brilliant bluish-green crystals encrusting cavities in the granite of Luxullian in Cornwall. Another common mode of occurrence of apatite is in metamorphic c ...

... res of all kinds. Amongst them may be mentioned the silver-bearing lead ores of Erzgebirge and of Pribram in Bohemia; the iron ores of Styria and Bukpvina; and the iron, copper, cobalt and nickel of the districts of Zips and Gomor. The famous cinnabar and merc ...

... measurement were later found in the meteorite which fell at Breitenbach in the Erzgebirge, Bohemia. Large crystals, a foot in length and mostly altered to steatite, were found in 1874 in the apatite veins traversing mica-schist' and hornblende-schist at the a ...

... in 1517. In July 1829 it was captured by the Russian general Paskevich, and the ERZGEBIRGE— ESAR-HADDON occupation continued until the peace of Adrianople (September iSjg). The town was unsuccessfully attacked by the Russians on the oth of November 1877 after ...

... d, the Spessart, the Rhon, the Thuringerwald, the Harz, the Fichtelgebirge, the Erzgebirge and the Riesengebirge. Since then the progress of population has subjected many thousands of square miles to the plough, and in some parts of the continent it is only wh ...

... 20. It is picturesquely situated in the plain of the Biela, which separates the Erzgebirge from the Bohemian Mittelgebirge, and is a favourite watering-place, containing a large Kurhaus and numerous handsome bathhouses. The environs are laid out in pretty and ...