────────────────┬─────────┬─────────────────────────────┬────────── │ Number │ Tons of Goods Carried. │ Number of Cities. │ of ├─────────┬─────────┬─────────┤ Tons per │ Inhabi- │ By │ By │ Total. │ Head of │ tants.│ Rail. │ Water. │ │ Population ────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼────────── │ │ │ │ │ Berlin │1,200,000│3,504,000│3,348,000│6,852,000│ 5·71 │ │ │ │ │ Breslau │ 270,000│1,237,000│ 350,000│1,587,000│ 5·88 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ [75]│ │ Hamburg │ 410,000│1,191,000│3,221,000│4,442,000│ 10·7 │ │ │ │ │ Magdeburg │ │ │ │ │ (including │ │ │ │ │ Buckau and │ 165,000│1,650,000│1,118,000│2,768,000│ 16·7 Neustadt) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ [76]│ │ │ Dresden │ 220,000│1,411,000│ 534,000│1,945,000│ 8·8 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ [77]│ │ Bremen │ 112,000│ 776,000│ 184,000│ 960,000│ 8·5 │ │ │ │ │ Ports of │ │ │ │ │ Rhine— │ │ │ │ │ (Rhurort, │ │ │ │ │ Duisburg, │ 70,000│5,427,000│4,107,000│9,554,000│ 136·0 and Hochfeld) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Cologne │ │ │ │ │ (including │ 160,000│1,132,000│ 314,000│1,634,000│ 10·0 Deutz) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Mannheim and │ │ │ │ │ Ludwigshafen │ 75,000│1,776,000│2,041,000│3,817,000│ 50·0 ────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴────────── In the year 1878 it was announced that over 1045 miles of new canal navigation had been ordered throughout Germany, in addition to the 1289 miles then open, and the 4925 miles of navigable rivers available.[78] This fact sufficiently indicates the great importance that is attached in Germany to adequate water communication, and it is all the more notable that very few countries are possessed of equally cheap railway transport. FOOTNOTES: