The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 16 AUSTEIA-HUNGARY. in the west ; the summers are hotter, the winters more severe. This difference, however, is not due to the presence of the Alps, for it exists in the plains on either side of them. Austrian meteorologists affirm that this excessive climate is gradually extending towards the west. Eastern plants, capable of withstanding these changes of temperature, are spreading westward, and this accounts for the differences between the Alpine floras of Austria and Switzerland. These differ- ences, however, would only st
The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita386recl Year: 1883 16 AUSTEIA-HUNGARY. in the west ; the summers are hotter, the winters more severe. This difference, however, is not due to the presence of the Alps, for it exists in the plains on either side of them. Austrian meteorologists affirm that this excessive climate is gradually extending towards the west. Eastern plants, capable of withstanding these changes of temperature, are spreading westward, and this accounts for the differences between the Alpine floras of Austria and Switzerland. These differ- ences, however, would only strike a botanist, and the general aspect of forests or Fig. 7.—Isothermal Zones of Austria. Scale 1 : 15,000,000. pastures is the same, whether we wander through Styria, the Oetzthal, or Switzer- land.* The People. The population of the Austrian Alps is far from homogeneous by race and language. The Germans are now in a majority, but they have absorbed ancient populations who preceded them, and of whom traces have been discovered in the Lake of Hallstatt and elsewhere. Pile dwellings, however, appear to have been far fewer than in Switzerland. The Tyrolese more especially are a mixed race, for they have absorbed not Verona Lat. N. 45° 26' Height (Feet). Mean Temperature (Fahr.). January. July. Year. 37° 79° 59° Rainfall. Inches. 37 Laibach 46° 3' 970 30° 67° 48° 71 Klagenfurt . Meran . 46° 37' 46° 40' 1,446 1,025 22° 32° 66° 46° 73° 53° 39 31 Trent . 46° 41' 695 34° 71° 53° 43 Gratz . 47° 4' 220 27° 67° 48° 23 Gastein 47= 5' 3,250 23° 67° 42° 20 Innsbruck . 47° 16' 1,900 26° 65° 49° 29 Salzburg Linz 47° 18' 48° 18' 1,425 860 27° 27° 63° 47° 67° 45° 44 23
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