Rhenish Prussia

Rhenish Prussia is the district surrounded by Alsace - Lorraine, Belgium, Holland, Hesse, Nassau, Bavaria, and Westphalia, and contains 10,415 square miles. It is hilly in the south, which is occupied by the Eifel and other mountainous country, but most of the land is very fertile, and produces abundance of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and pigs. Minerals are plentiful, among them being iron, coal, copper, lead, zinc, clay, gypsum, marble, porphyry and alabaster. The manufactures are important, among them being iron and machine making, chemical, sugar, glass, and porcelain works, cotton-, woollen-, linen-, and silk-mills, fulling, tanning, paper-making, and much brewing and distilling. There are five governments, and the inhabitants are for the most part Catholic.