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drained into the Save, for tlie effluent of this lake, the Gradasca, is but a small 

 river. The plain is now effectually drained by canals, having a total length of over 

 600 miles, and much land has been brought under cultivation. In the stone age 

 the lake afforded shelter to a tribe occupying pile dwellings. The flora and fauna 

 of the country were then in some respects different from what they are now. A 

 large species of fish, no longer found, inhabited the lake, and an aquatic plant 

 [ValUsneria spiralis), now unknown, was eaten by the lake dwellers. 



Inhabitants. 



The differences of climate in a country extending for 280 miles from west to 

 east, from the cold Alps and the inhospitable plateau of Liburnia to the lowlands 



Fig. 43.— The Plain of Laibach. 

 Scale 1 : 220,000. 



461 



li"! iO E of Crl 



5 Jliles, 



of the Save and the Danube, are naturally very considerable.* But, in spite of 

 these differences, the inhabitants belong to one and the same race. On crossing 

 the Save from Hungary we enter a country inhabited almost exclusively by men 

 of the same race, speaking dialects of the same language. The easternmost portion 

 of Slavonia is inhabited by Servians, amongst whom dwell a few Rumanians, 

 Magyars, and Albanians, the latter near Mitrovic, Farther west, in Croatia, the 

 foreign elements are still less numerous, for Croats and Slovenes occupy the whole 



Mean Temp. Eainfall. 

 Deg. F. Inches. 



* Laibach (Camiola) 49 54 



Zavalje (Plateau of Croatia) 47 51 



Agram (Plain of Croatia) . . . . . 52 31 



Zemun (Semlin, in Syrmia) ..... 53 20 



