TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND 

 SPORT. 



FROM 'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.' 



THE DESTRUCTION OF SZEGEDIX. 



BY LANDOR R. CROSSE. 



[MAGA. JUNE 1879.] 



T7IABLY in March 1879, news reached Buda-Pesth 

 -L^ of impending floods in the Theiss valley of a 

 serious and exceptional character. During the past 

 winter more snow had fallen all over the ' country 

 than is generally the case even in Hungary, while 

 at the same time the cold had been less than usual. 

 At Buda-Pesth, though the Danube was covered with 

 drift-ice, it had never been completely frozen over. 

 We may assume, therefore, that the snow lay, not in 

 its usual consolidated and frozen state, but lightly 

 packed, so to speak, and ready to melt at the first 

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