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est declivity ^ which lead oat of the 'valley first to 

 the north, and then toward the east. Hun- 

 gary* furnishes an analogous and very remark- 

 able example of rivers, which, rising on the south 

 of a chain of mountains, belong to the hydraulic 

 system of it's northern declivity. The division 

 of waters between the Baltic and the Black Sea 

 is found on the south of Tatra, one of the groupes 

 of the Carpathian mountains, between Tepliez 

 and Ganocz, on a table-land which has only 

 three hundred toises of elevation. The Waag 

 and the Hernad flow south, toward the Danube ; 

 while the Poprad turns round the group of Tatra 

 to the west, and with the Dunajetz runs north 

 into the Vistula. The Poprad, which by it's 

 situation seems to belong to the tributary streams 

 of the Black Sea, disengages itself apparently 



* The Carpathian mountains, which are generally repre- 

 sented as an uninterrupted chain between Poland and Hun- 

 gary, only form elevated groups, connected together by table- 

 lands of two or three hundred toises high. Thus the group 

 of Tatra, to which belongs the Peak of Lomnitz, one thousand 

 three hundred and tweny toises in height, terminates abruptly 

 at the east, while on the west it is united by a very long ridge 

 to the group of Tatra, which has only nine hundred toises of 

 absolute elevation. The Dunajetz, which rises on the north 

 of Tatra, receives the Poprad, which comes from the southern 

 slope of the same group ; the Waag, which rises on the 

 south, receives the Arva, which comes from the northern de- 

 clivity. See the great Map of Hungary by Lipsky and fVah- 

 lenberg, Flora Carpath,, p. xxxiii and lix. 



