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from the Pyrenees, Cevennes, and Auvergnes to the Atlantic . 

 Loire and Seine from the two latter mountains and the 

 northern hilly country to the Atlantic and the British Chan- 

 nel; Rhone from the Cevennes, the western face of Jura 

 and the Alps, to the Mediterranean ; Rhine from the Alps, 

 receiving branch rivers from Jura, the Vosges, Schwarzwald, 

 Odenwald, and some smaller mountains; Weser, from the 

 above-mentioned Weser mountains ; the Elbe, from the Elbe 

 mountains, (the three last rivers send their waters into the 

 North sea) ; Oder from the east side of the Sudetes to the 

 Baltic; Weichsel (Vistula) from the north side of the Car- 

 pathians, also to the Baltic; Dnister from the east side of 

 the Carpathians to the Black Sea ; and, lastly, the Danube 

 (Donau) from Schwarzwald and Rauhe Alp, receiving a 

 number of large branch rivers from the north and east side 

 of the Alps, and some from Bohmerwald and the Carpathians, 

 whose mouth is also in the Black sea. 



Geat lakes are only found on the Hungarian plain ; viz. 

 Platten, and Newsiedler lake. 







Annual, 



Winter, 



Summer 



Bordeaux, 



45° N. L. 



56-75 



43 



71-4 



Carlsruke, 



49° 



51-12 



34-2 



65-75 



Prag, 



50° 



50 



30-88 



66-9 



Vienna, ... 



48° 



51-12 



32 



69-12 



Ofen, 



47°30' 



51-12 



30-88 



70-2 



Clermont,* 



46° 



51-12 



36-5 



S6.5 



From this it will be perceived that the mean temperature 

 somewhat decreases toward the east, and particularly that the 

 winter becomes severer, the summer warmer : the Rhenish 

 valley (Carlsruke) and the Bohemian basin (Prag) have a re- 

 markably high mean temperature. The winter in Prag is 

 about equal to Copenhagen, but the summer nearly 3*37° war- 

 mer. At Ofen the difference between summer and winter 



* In Auvergne. 



