INLAND WATER TRANSPORT.) Ever since 1921 the old Ludwigskanal connecting the Danube and the river Main is being enlarged and will form the Rhine Main-Danube Canal, thus making navigation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Black Sea through the European continent possible.
Many legends are woven around the course of the Danube. A district in Austria near Grein is still called the Nibelungen-gau in memory of one of the most famous sagas.
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