. The earth and its inhabitants .. . CHAPTER VII. GALICIA AND BUKOVINA. (Austrian Poland and Ruthema.) General Aspects, Mountains, and Climate. ALICIA and Bukovina, lying outside the rampart of the Carpathians, form part of the Austrian Empire, in spite of the great boundaries determined by geographical features. Climate and the general slope of the soil attest that these countries form an integral portion of the vast plain which stretches from the Sudetes to the Altai. They also differ ethnologically from the remainder of the empire, which has held them for hardly more than a century. By anne
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . CHAPTER VII. GALICIA AND BUKOVINA. (Austrian Poland and Ruthema.) General Aspects, Mountains, and Climate. ALICIA and Bukovina, lying outside the rampart of the Carpathians, form part of the Austrian Empire, in spite of the great boundaries determined by geographical features. Climate and the general slope of the soil attest that these countries form an integral portion of the vast plain which stretches from the Sudetes to the Altai. They also differ ethnologically from the remainder of the empire, which has held them for hardly more than a century. By annexing them Austria did violence not only to geographical landmarks, but also to national susceptibilities. Maria Theresa herself, when she signed the treaty partitioning Poland, avowed that she " prostituted her honour for the sake of a paltry bit of ; Cracow, the last remnant of Poland, was occupied by Austria in 1846, in defiance of a treaty dictated b}^ herself The outer slope of the Carpathians is steeper as a rule than the inner one, and constitutes a very formidable natural frontier. The boundary-line, however, neither follows the watershed nor the crest of the mountain range. Hungary has secured possession of the great central group, the Tâtra, as well as of the upper basin of the Poprad, which flows north towards the Vistula. Only a few summits in Galicia exceed a height of 6,500 feet, but to a spectator standing in the plain to the north of them, the Carpathians, with their steep scarps and barren summits, rising above forests and pastures, and covered with snow during a great part of the year, present a grand sight. The Eastern Carpathians are still clad with their ancient forests. In the vicinity of the Cserna Gora, or " Black Mountains," in the Bukovina, these forests extend uninterruptedly for many miles, and the Bukovina is fairly entitled to its Slav name of Land of Beeches, or " ; In the south, towards the frontiers
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