Photo and copyright by G. R. Ballance 

 SHRINE AT ST. MAGDALENA : TYROL 



owing to the difficulty of its means of 

 communication with the outer world, but 

 this has all been remedied, and now an 

 ingeniously constructed highroad pene- 

 trates it from Bozen, and one may travel 

 the whole way in a government mail mo- 

 tor, although perhaps the best way to 

 make the trip is on foot. Stopping places 

 are frequent and the journey may be 

 often broken over a mug of beer and a 

 slice of good cheese, as some grotesque 



formation of the rock or inspiring land- 

 scape holds the rapt attention. 



The Carpathian Mountains form the 

 watershed between the Northern Seas 

 and the Black Sea. They are almost 

 wholly in Austrian territory, extending 

 from the valley of the Danube River,. 

 which separates them from the Alps, to 

 the frontier of Roumania. To the main 

 chain of ^ the Carpathians the name West- 

 ern Carpathian Mountains has been given. 



