. The earth and its inhabitants .. . \^J so-ifO' 5 Miles. river has a length of 338 miles ; but the river itself, including its numerous divagations, measures no less than 930 miles. " Dead " river channels, swamps, and marshes line its banks. Formerly it was thought sufficient to connect the many loops of the river by " cuts," and to construct embankments, in order to protect some 3,000,000 acres against inundation, and to banish the malignant fevers born in summer from stagnant swamps. The landowners of each district only looked to their own interests, and even th
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . \^J so-ifO' 5 Miles. river has a length of 338 miles ; but the river itself, including its numerous divagations, measures no less than 930 miles. " Dead " river channels, swamps, and marshes line its banks. Formerly it was thought sufficient to connect the many loops of the river by " cuts," and to construct embankments, in order to protect some 3,000,000 acres against inundation, and to banish the malignant fevers born in summer from stagnant swamps. The landowners of each district only looked to their own interests, and even the works constructed more recently under the direction of the engineer Vâsârhelyi, though conceived * Discharge at Buda-Pest, when the river level has fallen to zero of the gauge, 24,700 cubic feet per second ; when it has risen to 9 inches above zero, 106,000 cubic feet ; at 18-7 feet above zero, 240,000 cubic feet.
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