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THE VISTULA 



Is the largest river in Poland proper. Its source is in Mount Crapach, 

 on the borders of Silesia and Upper Hungary, crosses little Poland, a 

 part of Masoria, of great Poland and of Prussia, and falls just below 

 Dantzic, into the Baltic. In its course it passes by Cracow, Sandomir, 

 Warsaw, Thorn and Culm; it is 650 miles in length. 



The far-famed 



TIBER, 



With all its classic associations, is now shrunk into an inconsiderable 

 stream, and "none so poor to do it reverence." Shorn of its former 

 greatness, " its destiny," says a French author, " is altogether strange. 

 It passes through a corner of Rome as if it did not exist. No one 

 deigns to cast his eyes towards it; no one speaks of it, no one drinks 

 its waters, and the women do not even use it for washing. It steals 

 away between paltry houses, which conceal it, and hastens to precipitate 

 tself into the sea, ashamed of its modern appellation Teveri." 



THE RHINE 



Is one of the noblest rivers in the world, and from the varied and 

 beautiful scenery on its banks, is, perhaps, the most interesting. It rises 

 in the Canton of the Grisons, from three principal sources; the first is 

 in the mountain of Crispalt, north east of St. Gothard, and unites at 

 Dissentis with the second, which comes from the Leumanian mountain; 

 both unite with the third, which comes from a glacier in the Andula, 

 about twenty leagues from Reecheman, where is the union of all the 

 three streams; here it takes the name of the Rhine, and is 230 feet wide 

 it is 840 miles long, and is navigable to the extent of 630 miles. 



THE DANUBE 



Is the second largest river in Europe, being inferior only to the Volga. 

 Its rise is in the Black Forest, Germany, runs in an easterly direction 

 through Austria, Hungary, part of Turkey in Europe, and discharges 

 itself into the Black Sea, after a rapid course of 1,833 miles, previously 

 having received thirty navigable rivers and ninety streams. 



