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 THE NEUTRAL TERRITORY OF MORESNET.

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The "forgotten territory" which forms the subject of this address is not situated in the midst of high mountains, nor is its topography or climate of such a character as to render access to it difficult or dangerous, which might explain in part its condition; neither is it placed in a vast and barren desert, where its poverty protects it from the envy of stronger neighbors; nor is it a country remote from the great ways of travel, ignorant of railways, and distant from commercial and industrial centres. On the contrary, it is found in one of the richest and most important mining valleys of Europe. A branch railway connects it with the main line from Cologne to Verviers, and it is two miles from the railway further to the north