DUISBURG, dM'is-barK. A town of Rhenish Prussia. situated about 15 miles north of Diisseldorf, between the Ruhr and the Rhine, with both of which it is connected by a calm! (Slap: Prussia. Ii 3). Among its numerous churches that of Saint Sal•ator, a handsome Gothic edifice of the fourteenth century. contain ing some interesting mural decorations and the tomb of the famous geographer Mercator, de serves special mention. The streets are well laid out, and a modern system of sewers has been in troduced. From its water-supply the city nets an annual profit of about $55,000. It also owns the gas-works. its manufactures are numerous and important. it has iron-foundries, blast-furnaces, machine-works, steel and brass works. impor tant chemical-works and factories manufacturing malt liquors, asphalt, glue, varnish, furniture, tobacco. soda, sulphuric• acid. soap, starch, and sugar. Duisburg is one of the principal points of export for the Westphalian coal trade, and has two large harbors. In addition to the prod
ucts manufaetured in the city, the exports in clude those of the surrounding country. viz. iron ore, coal, and grain. The number of vessels leav ing the port is over 4000 per year, with a ton nage of over 1.000.000. It has ample railway facilities and an electric railway line for inter urban traffic. Population, in 1890. 59,285; in 1900, 92,729. Duisburg is an ancient town. It was in all probability the Cast•um lkutonis of the Romans and the Disparguni of the Franks. It was strongly fortified by Charlemagne. In the thirteenth century it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and afterwards a free town of the Empire, and later a part of the territory if Cleves, but at the close of the Napoleonic wars it was handed over to Prussia.