Central Europe . Southern Tyrol. NeaiKronstadt (Brasso) rises the mighty bulk of the Bucsecs(8289 feet), the limestone nucleus of which is over-laid by conglomerates, incorporating pebbles from a sea-shore. This is the great final pillar of the limestonemountains. Except the Bucsecs, none of these mountains cancompare in height with the peaks of primitive rockwhich—though less firmly connected—repeat in theCarpathians the central zone of the Alps. In thenorth-west and the south-east rocks of high geologicalantiquity extend to considerable breadth, and rise toheights of 8000 feet. The two mount
Central Europe . Southern Tyrol. NeaiKronstadt (Brasso) rises the mighty bulk of the Bucsecs(8289 feet), the limestone nucleus of which is over-laid by conglomerates, incorporating pebbles from a sea-shore. This is the great final pillar of the limestonemountains. Except the Bucsecs, none of these mountains cancompare in height with the peaks of primitive rockwhich—though less firmly connected—repeat in theCarpathians the central zone of the Alps. In thenorth-west and the south-east rocks of high geologicalantiquity extend to considerable breadth, and rise toheights of 8000 feet. The two mountain countriesof which they form the core—Upper Hungary and CARPATHIANS AND HUNGARIAN DANUBE 49 Transylvania—are ethnographically entitled as homesof the Slovaks and of the Roumanians to be reckonedseparately, while between them, up to the sandstonebelt of the Middle Carpathians, stretches the MagyarPlain. The most beautiful part of the Carpathians iscertainly the High Tatra, with whose pyramids of granite. Fig. 12.—The Lake Region of the High Tatra (7500 to 8700 feet) nothing in the Alps—unless it bethe Aiguilles of Mont Blanc—can be compared. Thevalleys, once rilled by great glaciers, are now sprinkledwith dark tarns. In Transylvania, the rock of the primitive formationdivides into three groups, standing around the area ofdepression which occupies the centre of the province. Tothe north-east, between the rivers Theiss and Marosh, liethe Rodna Mountains; on the west, bounding that part of 50 CENTRAL EUROPE Transylvania, are mighty mountains of which the nucleusis of old crystalline rock ; but the greatest developmentlies on the south in a belt that runs 180 miles, startingfrom the Torzburg Pass at Kronstadt, going first to thewest, then to the south-west and south, and ending at theIron Gates. Amid these thickly wooded and thinlypeopled South Carpathians three groups, marked bycircular valleys, high lakes, and traces of glaciers, surpassthe height of 8000 feet. Th
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