. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 84 AUSTEIA-HUNGAEY. on a wider plan, are far from having removed the dangers of inundation. On the contrary, owing to the greater fall of the river, flood;; appear to prove more disastrous now than they were formerly.* Vast tracts of land have certainly been protected by these embankments, but others, far more valuable, have been Fig. 53.—Meanderixgs and "Cuts" of the (Theiss). Scale 1 : 22°lO';Gr. 5 Miles. exposed to the floods, one of the most disastrous of which occurred in the present year (1879). At a compa
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 84 AUSTEIA-HUNGAEY. on a wider plan, are far from having removed the dangers of inundation. On the contrary, owing to the greater fall of the river, flood;; appear to prove more disastrous now than they were formerly.* Vast tracts of land have certainly been protected by these embankments, but others, far more valuable, have been Fig. 53.—Meanderixgs and "Cuts" of the (Theiss). Scale 1 : 22°lO';Gr. 5 Miles. exposed to the floods, one of the most disastrous of which occurred in the present year (1879). At a comparatively recent epoch the Tisza flowed about 60 miles farther to the east, along the foot of the mountains of Transylvania. But its great tributaries, the Szamos, the Koros, and the Maros, meeting it at right angles, * In 1872 the embankments of the Tisza had a length of 776 miles, whilst by means of "cuts " the main channel of the river had been shortened 298 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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