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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt:...assumed the title of Frederick i., king of Prussia. The kingdom, after various extensions, was conquered and cut down by Napoleon, but re-established upon his fall, with enlargements taken from Saxony, as a penalty for the adherence of the Saxon monarch to the fortunes of the despot. Reigning sovereign, Frederick William iv.--ascended the throne 1840. Breslau, on the Oder, ranks after the capital In size, the seat of a considerable transit trade with Austria. ' The St. Elizabeth church, built in the ninth century, has the loftiest tower in Prussia, 364 feet.--Population, 90,000. Cologne, on the Rhine, the Colonia Agrippina of the Romans, manufactures the well-known eau-de-Cologne, of which more than a million flasks are exported annually, and possesses, in its unfinished cathedral, the most stately specimen of Gothic architecture in the world.--Population, 70,000. K'onigsberg, on the Pregel, with Pillau on the Baltic for its port, is the seat ot a celebrated astronomical observatory, recently under the superintendence of Bessel.--Population, 68,000. Dantzic, on the left bank of the Vistula, about four miles from its embouchure, is one of the most important commercial cities in the north of Europe, the entrept'it, where the surplus products of the interior, as far as Hungary, are exchanged for those of the foreigner. It exports more wheat than any other port in the world, Odessa perhaps excepted.--Population, 56,000. Magdeburg, an ancient city on the Elbe, possesses one of the strongest fortresses in Europe.--Population, 55,000, including military. Aix-la-Chapelle, towards the Belgian frontier, the favourite residence of Charlemagne, containing his tomb, has hot mineral waters celebrated from a remote antiquity.--Population, 40,000. Stettin, on the Oder, 36...