Wurzburg and Vienna: Scraps from a Diary (1885) in Littell's Living Age

See page 48, 2nd column (also available printed, on cart): "Industry is spoiling and soiling our planet. Chemical produce poisons the water, the dross from different works and factories covers the country, quarries split up the picturesque slopes of valleys, black coal smoke dulls the verdant foliage and the azure of the sky, the drainage of large cities turns our rivers into sewers, whence emerge the germs of typhus."