Note 56 — Chapter V

The Zollverein States are, Prussia at the head: Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Kothen, Baden, Bavaria, Brunswick, Frankfort, Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Homburg, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Lippe-Detmold, Luxemburg with Limburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Nassau, Oldenburg and Kniphausen, Reuss (Old line), Reuss (New line), Saxony, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar, Eisenach, Schwarzburg, Rudolfstadt-Schwarzburg, Sonderhausen, Waldeck, Wurtemburg. The Zollverein embraces an area of 131,615 geographical square miles, with a population of 28½ millions, being 63·08 per cent. of the whole area of Germany as it then existed, and 64·35 per cent. of its population. The several States entered voluntarily into the regulation.