. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Galicia, the Bukowina, and Bumania. Apart from the few difficult passes which lead across it, there are but two roads which enable Hungary freely to communi- cate with the west and the east, viz. the "Porta Hungarica," near Pressburg, and the famous " Iron Gate " of Orsova. These are the only natural outlets which place the plain of Hungary in free communication with the outer world. The influence exercised by this mountain ramj)art upon the migration of peo2:»les and upon their destinies has therefore been naturally great. The Carpathia
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Galicia, the Bukowina, and Bumania. Apart from the few difficult passes which lead across it, there are but two roads which enable Hungary freely to communi- cate with the west and the east, viz. the "Porta Hungarica," near Pressburg, and the famous " Iron Gate " of Orsova. These are the only natural outlets which place the plain of Hungary in free communication with the outer world. The influence exercised by this mountain ramj)art upon the migration of peo2:»les and upon their destinies has therefore been naturally great. The Carpathians are uniform in their general features, if we compare them with the Western Alps, but their mountain masses and secondary chains nevertheless present much variety of detail. They begin nearly opposite the last spurs of the Alps, below the confluence of the Danube and the Mora va (March). Their first summit, the Thebner Kegel (1,683 feet), is the culminating point of a detached range. To the north of a depression through which runs the railway from Vienna * Fiom Khrebet, a Slav word signifying mountain range.
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