Vosges

Vosges (Lat. Vogesus, Ger. Vogesen or Wasgau), a range of mountains in the north-east of France and the west of Germany, run from south to north, on the left bank of the Rhine, from the borders of Switzerland to Mainz, and separate Alsace from the French departments of Vosges and Meurthe and the German Lorraine. The range runs parallel with the Black Forest, on the right bank of the Rhine, which it much resembles in picturesque well-wooded appearance and geological structure. The highest summits, which are in the southern portion, run from 4100 to close on 4700 feet high, and form the western border of this part of the Rhine basin. See H. W. Wolff's Watering-places of the Vosges (1891) and The Country of the Vosges (1892).