GERMANY. 
1598 
The university, and the learned men it has brought to 
Berlin, have made the city renowned all over the world. 
There are many other oted universities in Germany. 
U. Germany has many large cities besides Berlin. 
some of them very old, 
and full of strange 
buildings and fine 
churches that were 
built hundreds of 
years ago. Theyhave 
very strong, dark 
walls, tall towers, and 
multitudes of. slender 
pinnacles; and are 
adorned with figures 
of men and- animals, 
leaves and flowers, 
and many other or- 
haments, carved from 
the solid stone. 
12. Some of the 
churches, though be- 
gun so long ago, have 
never been entirely finished. Strassburg Cathedral is 
One of the oldest of these. Strassburg is at the west of 
the Rhine, in a tract of country conquered by France 
from the Germans. "This tract contains the two prov- 
inces Alsace and Lorraine, which were regained by 
Germany in the war of 1870. 
13. Munich is one of the finest of German cities. It 
is famous for its valuable colleetions of paintings and 
Sculptures. 
Strassburg Cathedral