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Travel, adventure, and sport from 'Blackwood's magazine'
T7IABLY in March 1879, news reached Buda-Pesth -L^ of impending floods in the Theiss valley of a serious and exceptional character. During the past winter more snow had fallen all over the ' country than is generally the case even in Hungary, while at the same time the cold had been less than usual. At Buda-Pesth, though the Danube was covered with drift-ice, it had never been completely frozen over. We may assume, therefore, that the snow lay, not in its usual consolidated and frozen state, but lightly packed, so to speak, and ready to melt at the first VOL. v
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