. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. the east of the Tisza are not only exposed to inundations, whenever the river breaks through the embankments designed to control it, but they also sufler occasionally from a sudden bursting forth of subterranean reservoirs of water. Floods in Hungary, after all, are more or less traceable to the Danube. The gorge through which that mighty river escapes to the plains of Rumania is very narrow, and when the snow melts, or heavy rains fall, the superabundant water not being able to escape, the river gradually rises, until the swamps lining its banks a
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. the east of the Tisza are not only exposed to inundations, whenever the river breaks through the embankments designed to control it, but they also sufler occasionally from a sudden bursting forth of subterranean reservoirs of water. Floods in Hungary, after all, are more or less traceable to the Danube. The gorge through which that mighty river escapes to the plains of Rumania is very narrow, and when the snow melts, or heavy rains fall, the superabundant water not being able to escape, the river gradually rises, until the swamps lining its banks are converted into lakes, and the plains for miles above the Iron Gate stand under water. At the mouth of the Temes a lake 200 square miles in extent, and 7 feet deep, is formed. So gentle is the slope of the Hungarian plain that a rise of only 13 feet in the Danube causes the Tisza to flow back as far as Szeged, a distance of 87 miles. No embankments along the upper courses of the rivers can protect the
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