RUGELEY. ItUCIEN, an in the Baltic belonging to Prussia, is included in the government of Stralsund and province of Pomerania. It has an area of 388 square miles and a population of about 35,000. It is separated from the continent by a strait • mile broad. Its sides are deeply indented by the sea in various directions, so that the island resembles a number of peninsulas suited by a comparatively small nucleus In the centre. On the east side the peninsula of Jallta end is connected with the nucleus by a steep ridge called Prom, and by a long, narrow, and high well of flint, granite, and porphyry boulders. In this peninsula is the Stubbenitz, a considerable beech-forest, core Wising the Berg, or Black Lake, an oval spot surrounded with a high wall, which Is believed to be the place where the goddess llertha (Earth) was worshipped. (Tacitue, c. 40.) The whole island abounds in grotesque and romantic scenery. On the west it Is level, but rises in the interior, and the northern coasts consist in general of rugged steep chalk cliffs. One of the most considerable eminence, in
the island Is Mount Rugard, on which the residence of the princes formerly stood. On the north point of Jaemund he the Stubbeu kammer, a lofty chalk cliff, which rises perpendicularly (565 feet) from the sea in the most irregular forms ; a flight of 600 steps cut iu the rock leads down from the highest part of it to the strand. Jasmuud is connected by a narrow strip of alluvial eoil with tho peninsula of Wittow, a level tract with a rich soil, terminating in the promontory of Arkoms, the most northern point of Germany. Large tumuli (called Hilnengriiber) are seen in several parts. The island is tolerably fertile, and produces much corn. The number of cattle he con siderable, and the fisheries productive. Bergen, the capital of the island, has about 3000 inhabitants. Rugen is much visited for its beautiful scenery, and for sea-bathing. This island was ceded to Prussia by Sweden in 1815.
ReGENWALDE. (Ci:estast.)