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ALBECK

Volume 2 · 57 words · 1842 Edition

or ALPECK, a bailiwick in the circle of Jaxt, in Wirtemberg, extending over 114 square miles; or 72,960 acres. It contains one city, three market-towns, and 18,953 inhabitants. The soil is fertile, and produces good crops of corn, flax, hemp, rape-seed, and fruit. The chief trade depends on spinning linen, and on making various wares of wood.