. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 10 Miles. cation between both being kept up by a few steamers of special construction, or by road.* It is a disgrace to Austria that this obsticle to the free navigation of the noblest river of Europe should not have been removed long ago. Hardly any- thing has been done since the days of Tz-ajan to render these rapids less dangerous ; and it is only now, and in virtue of the treaty recently signed at Berlin, that Austria and Servia have undertaken to accomplish this great work of freeing the Danube. The Danube has not yet completely drained the plains of H
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 10 Miles. cation between both being kept up by a few steamers of special construction, or by road.* It is a disgrace to Austria that this obsticle to the free navigation of the noblest river of Europe should not have been removed long ago. Hardly any- thing has been done since the days of Tz-ajan to render these rapids less dangerous ; and it is only now, and in virtue of the treaty recently signed at Berlin, that Austria and Servia have undertaken to accomplish this great work of freeing the Danube. The Danube has not yet completely drained the plains of Hungary, for a few lakes remain behind, the largest being that of Balaton, spoken of as the " Hungarian * Average level of the Danube at the Hungarian Gate, 433 feet above the sea ; at the Iron Gate, 12^ feet; total fall of the Danube in 593 miles, 305 feet. Delivery at the Iron Gate, 360,900 cubic feet per second.
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