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on a wider plan, are far from having removed the dangers of inundation. On 

 the contrary, owing to the greater fall of the river, flood;; appear to prove more 

 disastrous now than they were formerly.* Vast tracts of land have certainly 

 been protected by these embankments, but others, far more valuable, have been 



Fig. 53. — Meanderixgs and "Cuts" of the Ti.sza (Theiss). 

 Scale 1 : 180.000. 



22°lO'E.ol"Gr. 



5 Miles. 



exposed to the floods, one of the most disastrous of which occurred in the present 

 year (1879). 



At a comparatively recent epoch the Tisza flowed about 60 miles farther to 

 the east, along the foot of the mountains of Transylvania. But its great 

 tributaries, the Szamos, the Koros, and the Maros, meeting it at right angles, 



* In 1872 the embankments of the Tisza had a length of 776 miles, whilst by means of "cuts " the 

 main channel of the river had been shortened 298 miles. 



