WESER, the Roman risurgis, ono of the largest rivers of Germany, is formed by the junction of the Werra and the Fulda : the Werra rises in Saxe-Ilildburghausen, and the Fulda iu the Ithon-gebirge in Bavaria. The course of the Werra is 175 miles, and that of the Fulda 125 miles, to their junction at Mtinden iu Hanover, where their united streams take the name of the Weser. The Weser then passes through the principality of GOttingen, the duchy of Brunswick, the principality of Calenberg, the county of Schaumburg, the Pnissiau province of Westphalia, the Hanoverian provinces of Hoya, Verdes, and Bremen, and the territory of tho city of Bremen, from 'which, to its very broad mouth beyond Breinerlehe, it forms the boundary between Hanover and Oldeuburg, and falls into the North Sea 45 miles below the city of Bremen : its entire course from Minden is 225 miles. Its principal aftluenta are, on the right hand, the Aller, with the Ocker and the Leine ; the Wumine ; the Luuo; and, ou the left, the Au; the Delmo; the Hunts. The general direction of its course is from south to north,
at first through a mountainous country, to the celebrated Porta \Veatphalica (between four and five miles above Minden), which is a gap in the StIntel-gebirge, through which it flows, having Jacobs berg (528 feet high) on the right, and Wittekindsbcrg (807 feet high) on the left bank. After passing the Porta Westphalica it flows through a wido valley with low banks. The facilities afforded by the navi gation of the Weser, the Werra, the Fulda, and some of the other tributary streams, as the Aller and the Hunts, are of the highest Importance to the commerce of the countries on their banks. The upper and middle portions of the Weser however are often rendered impasitible in summer by sandbanks. Five miles below Bremerlehe harbour was constructed, in 1818, at the mouth of tho river. [BREMEN.]