DANUBE, UPPER, one of the circles of the kingdom of Bavaria. It is composed of several portions, which have been secularized or mediatized of late years, namely, of the ecclesiastical states Augsburg, Kempen, and some smaller territories, and of the temporal states Augsburg, Lindau, Mindelheim, Schwabeck, of the lordships of the Count Fuggar, of Truchses Waldburg and Rothenfels. The whole, as it now exists, extends over 3770 square miles, or 2,412,800 English acres. The entire circle is a very mountainous country, being a prolongation of the Rhætian Alps, some of whose peaks are 9000 feet in height; but there are exceptions in the northern part, where the land is level and the soil fertile. The inhabitants are 438,146, and chiefly depend on agriculture. Except in the capital of the province, Augsburg, there is little trade, and only a few manufactures; but that city is still rich and flourishing from both those sources of wealth.