See also:

• WESER (O. Ger. Visuracha, Wisura, Lat. Visurgis)

WESER (O. Ger. Visuracha, Wisura, See also:

• LAT

Lat. Visurgis)  , one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, formed by the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of the Werra and the See also:

• FULDA

Fulda at See also:

• MUNDEN
• MUNDEN, JOSEPH SHEPHERD (1758—1832)

Munden, in the Prussian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover, flowing generally See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north and entering the North See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea below See also:

• BREMERHAVEN

Bremerhaven, between See also:

• JADE
• JADE, or JAHDE

Jade See also:

• BAY

Bay and the See also:

• ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary of the See also:

• ELBE (the Albis of the Romans and the Labe of the Czechs)

Elbe . The mouth is 17o M. from Munden, but the winding course of the See also:

• RIVER

river is 27o m. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long; if the measurement be made from the source of the Werra, in the Thiiringer Wald, the See also:

• TOTAL

total length of the stream is 440 m . At Munden the river See also:

• SURFACE

surface is 38o ft. above sea-level; the most rapid fall in its course is between Karlshafen and See also:

• MINDEN

Minden in See also:

• WESTPHALIA (Ger. Westfalen)
• WESTPHALIA, TREATY OF

Westphalia . Nearly the entire course of the See also:

• WESER (O. Ger. Visuracha, Wisura, Lat. Visurgis)

Weser lies in See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, but it also touches See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick and See also:

• LIPPE

Lippe, and after flowing through See also:

• BREMEN

Bremen expands into an estuary separating the duchy of See also:

• OLDENBURG

Oldenburg from the Prussian province of Hanover . Between Munden and Minden its course lies through a picturesque valley flanked by irregular and disjointed ranges of hills (Reinhardswald, Sollinger Wald, Weser Hills, &c.); but after it emerges from these mountains by the narrow pass called the " Porta Westfalica," near Minden, its See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks become See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat and uninteresting . The breadth of the river varies from Iro yds. at Munden to 220 yds. at Minden, 250 yds. at Bremen, 14 m. at See also:

• ELSFLETH

Elsfleth and 7; M. at its entrance into the sea . The Weser on the whole is shallow, and See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation above Bremen is sometimes interrupted by drought . Until 1894 the fairway up to Bremen had a minimum See also:

• DEPTH

depth of little over 8 ft.; thereafter important See also:

• WORKS

works were undertaken, the minimum depth was made 18 ft., and the importance of Bremen as a See also:

• PORT

port was greatly enhanced . Boats of 35o tons can ascend generally as far as Munden . A See also:

• SYSTEM

system of waterways (the Geeste and Hadelner canals, See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting one another at Bederkesa) connects the estuary of the Weser with that of the Elbe; a See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal between the Hunte and the See also:

• LEDA

Leda gives connexion with the See also:

• EMS

Ems . On the upper Weser (above Bremen) the navigation, which is interrupted by occasional rapids, is assisted by locks and weirs . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal tributaries on the right are the Aller, Wumme, Drepte, Lune and Geeste, and on the See also:

• LEFT

left the Diemel, Nethe, Emmer, Werra, Aue and Hunte .

The Werra and Fulda are both navigable when they unite to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the Weser, the Fulda being canalized between See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel and the See also:

• TOWN

town of Fulda for a distance of 174 m.; the Aller, Wumme, Geeste and Hunte are also navigable . Below the junction of the Hunte the Weser, hitherto a single stream, is divided into several channels by islands . The Weser drains a See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin estimated at 18,53o sq. m., The navigation of the Weser was long hampered by the various and vexatious claims and rights of the different states through whose territories it ran . Before 1866 the See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint stream, including the Werra and the Fulda, changed its ruler no less than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-five times on its way to the sea . In 1823, however, a treaty was made establishing a fixed See also:

• TOLL (etymologically, that which is numbered or counted; from a common Teutonic form, cf. " tale," " tell ")
• TOLL, JOHAN KRISTOFFER, COUNT (1743-1817)

toll and a See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform system of management; this was further improved in 1856 and 1865; and when Prussia took See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of Hanover and See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse-See also:

• NASSAU

Nassau in 1866 the chief difficulties in the way of organizing the river-See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade disappeared . The principal town on the Weser is Bremen . Other towns past which it flows between Miinden and the sea are Karlshafen, HSxter, See also:

• HOLZMINDEN

Holzminden, Bodenwerder, See also:

• HAMELN

Hameln, Rinteln,Vlotho, Minden, Stolzenau, Nienburg, Vegesack, Elsfleth, See also:

• BRAKE

Brake, Geestemunde and Bremerhaven . The Weser gave name to a See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department in the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-lived See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of Westphalia: the chief town was See also:

• OSNABRUCK

Osnabruck .