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Show Two-Headed Stream The Rhine river rises as a two-headed two-headed stream in southern Switzerland, Switzer-land, enters the Boden See (Lake Constance), and emerges to continue con-tinue its winding 850-mile course to Its multi-mouthed outlet in the North sea. In Its oceanward journey jour-ney it picks up several important tributaries, such as the Lahn, the Neckar, the Main, and the Ruhr from the east, and the Mosel from the west. In some stretches the river is an international boundary. It is a frontier between Switzerland and tiny Liechtenstein, between Switzerland and the old Austria, between be-tween Switzerland and Germany, and between France and Germany. Thruugh Germany the river flows in a general northwesterly direction, direc-tion, turning sharply west at the Netherlands line to enter the North sea. |