Central Europe . Hie Edinburgh. GeorfrapticaL Ins. CARPATHIANS AND HUNGARIAN DANUBE 53 In the Upper Hungarian plain (the Little Alfold)between the Alps and the Bakonyan Forest, greatportions of the surface—some 6000 square miles—werecovered with rubble brought down, not only by the Raabfrom the Alps, and by the Waag, Neutra, and Gran fromthe Carpathians, but also by the Danube. Above Waitzen (Vacz) the Danube makes its waythrough picturesque gorges overlooked by the ruined royalcastle of Vishegrad into the lower plain of Hungary (theAlfold). The extent of this plain is greater (36,000 squaremi
Central Europe . Hie Edinburgh. GeorfrapticaL Ins. CARPATHIANS AND HUNGARIAN DANUBE 53 In the Upper Hungarian plain (the Little Alfold)between the Alps and the Bakonyan Forest, greatportions of the surface—some 6000 square miles—werecovered with rubble brought down, not only by the Raabfrom the Alps, and by the Waag, Neutra, and Gran fromthe Carpathians, but also by the Danube. Above Waitzen (Vacz) the Danube makes its waythrough picturesque gorges overlooked by the ruined royalcastle of Vishegrad into the lower plain of Hungary (theAlfold). The extent of this plain is greater (36,000 squaremiles), its surface still more gently inclined, its soil of finergrain. How deep was the basin which had to be filledup by the deposits of rivers running into the Alpine sea,we learn by boring into the middle of the plain. TheTertiary schists, which form the hills of the mountain-frame, are in places only touched at a depth of 650 is obvious that the sea became gradually smaller andshallower. Its last traces are to be found in the innum
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