. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 130 AUSTEIA-HUNGARY. and the broader valleys abound in swamps and small lakes, whicb act as " regulators " when the rivers become flooded. The peasants make no use of the turf as fuel, but they are imprudently active in converting the bogs into produc- tive land. The small lakes are utilised with considerable success for breeding fish. It would be far more prudent to allow tlie bogs to remain as they are, for a considerable amount of rain falls in Bohemia,* and the bogs, by sucking it up like a sponge, regulate the flow of the rivers. Ri
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 130 AUSTEIA-HUNGARY. and the broader valleys abound in swamps and small lakes, whicb act as " regulators " when the rivers become flooded. The peasants make no use of the turf as fuel, but they are imprudently active in converting the bogs into produc- tive land. The small lakes are utilised with considerable success for breeding fish. It would be far more prudent to allow tlie bogs to remain as they are, for a considerable amount of rain falls in Bohemia,* and the bogs, by sucking it up like a sponge, regulate the flow of the rivers. Rivers which formerly never overflowed their banks have done so since the drainage works have been begun. The Vltava and the Elbe effect their junction below Prague, and soon after, near the bold rock crowned with the ruins of Schreckenstein, the united river is joined by the Eger from the Avest. It then enters the gorge through which it Fit^. 80.—Lake Eegion ix Southeux Bohemia. Scale 1 : 375, 10 Miles. escapes from Bohemia. The smiling landscapes of its upper course give place to bolder scenery. On both banks rise the basaltic cones of the Mittelgebirge, succeeded by the grotesquely shaped sandstone masses of Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland. Picturesque towns are seated upon the winding river, and castles crown the heights looking down upon this gateway of the Elbe, which forms both a geographical and political boundary, separating Bohemia from the lowlands of Germany. Inhabitants. Two thousand years have passed away since Bohemia and Moravia were in the possession of the Boii and other tribes, usually called Celtic. Near Olmlitz and at * Eainfall in inches :—Bodenhach, at the gate of the Elbe, 23-6 ; Trautenau, near the source of the Elbe, 40-6 ; Prague, 15-7 ; Budweis, on the Upper Vltava, 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
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