ISBN: 9780217428859

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Up the Danube.--The Steamboats and their Accommodation.--Baziasch to Belgrad and Semlin.--Semlin to Mohacs. Or all the rivers of Europe the Danube is the most remarkable, the most important, the most interesting, and the most picturesque. It receives the largest number of tributaries, many of which are little inferior to firstclass rivers. It runs through the broadest plains, and between the loftiest cliffs; it has in some parts the greatest depth, and in others the most troublesome shoals and rocks, and the most serious natural interruptions of any; it is fed by streams proceeding from two of the loftiest of the European mountain chains. Taking its rise more than a thousand miles from the point of its embouchure in the Black Sea, it drains an area of more than half a million of square miles of country, far exceeding, in the length of its course, the number and importance of its tributaries, and the area it drains, any of the rivers of Europe, and even excelling in all these respects that great Asiatic river, the Ganges. With its source less than 3000 feet above the sea, and a length of course more than twice as great as that of the Rhine, it yet pours over the plains a body of water more unmanageable than that of the THE DANUBE. 161 Rhine, whose source lies at an elevation nearly three times as great, and whose waters have so much shorter a distance to travel. Combining so many points of geographical interest, the Danube is no less remarkable in its historical recollections, whether we regard ancient history before the Romans were able to penetrate north of the Alps, or the later period of Roman occupation, or the Mediaeval period, when the Crescent and the Cross were struggling for victory in the lands on its banks. There is no branch of inquiry in ... David Thomas Ansted, Books, History, A Short Trip in Hungary and Transylvania in the Spring of 1862 Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: W.H. Allen & Co. in 1862 in 273 pages; Subjects: Hungary; Transylvania; Transylvania (Romania); History / General; History / Europe / Eastern; History / Europe / Austria & Hungary;<

ISBN: 9780217428859

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrat… Altro …

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Up the Danube.--The Steamboats and their Accommodation.--Baziasch to Belgrad and Semlin.--Semlin to Mohacs. Or all the rivers of Europe the Danube is the most remarkable, the most important, the most interesting, and the most picturesque. It receives the largest number of tributaries, many of which are little inferior to firstclass rivers. It runs through the broadest plains, and between the loftiest cliffs; it has in some parts the greatest depth, and in others the most troublesome shoals and rocks, and the most serious natural interruptions of any; it is fed by streams proceeding from two of the loftiest of the European mountain chains. Taking its rise more than a thousand miles from the point of its embouchure in the Black Sea, it drains an area of more than half a million of square miles of country, far exceeding, in the length of its course, the number and importance of its tributaries, and the area it drains, any of the rivers of Europe, and even excelling in all these respects that great Asiatic river, the Ganges. With its source less than 3000 feet above the sea, and a length of course more than twice as great as that of the Rhine, it yet pours over the plains a body of water more unmanageable than that of the THE DANUBE. 161 Rhine, whose source lies at an elevation nearly three times as great, and whose waters have so much shorter a distance to travel. Combining so many points of geographical interest, the Danube is no less remarkable in its historical recollections, whether we regard ancient history before the Romans were able to penetrate north of the Alps, or the later period of Roman occupation, or the Mediaeval period, when the Crescent and the Cross were struggling for victory in the lands on its banks. There is no branch of inquiry in ... David Thomas Ansted, Books, History, A Short Trip in Hungary and Transylvania in the Spring of 1862 Books>History, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 0217428851

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1862, ISBN: 0217428851

1862, ISBN: 0217428851