HYDROGRAPIIY. The Danube receives the drain age of the entire country. except a small area in the mirth, whieli is drained into the Vistula. 'The course of the Danube from Pressburg to Orsova measures nearly 600 miles, and ill,. river is navigable throughout. The principal tribu ta•y from the north is the (Tisza), which 'traverses the Great Ihinretriain Plain, and the principal atlInent of which is the Maros; from w(...,1 and smith the 1)amilie receives the 1)ra t• ;11111 111• Sale. There are two large hike: ill Hungary, the Balaton I Platten See), with an aica of over 400 square miles (including sub merged marshes). and the Neusiedler or Ve•tii. 110 square miles. both lying in the west ern part, south of the Danube. In the Carpa thians there are many 14111 little of great depth, to which the Hungarians apply the name tenge•szem. or 'eye of the sea.'
Ct.Loi.vrE. Hungary may be divided into two main elimatie belt., the highland belt farm ing the northern, eastern, and southeastern por tions, and the lowlands occupying the great central and southwestern parts. The winter. is severe throughout the country. and the highland region the temperature sometimes falls as low as —1`3° F., while in the lowlands it seldom falls below 5°. The summers are oppressively hot in the central lowlands, the .11fi'ild. where the mercury rises to 93° or even The rainfall differs considerably between the highlands and the lowlands. the annual precipitation in the former being 47 inches, and in the latter only half as much. The Alf(11,1 suffers frequently from prolonged droughts, but mat- at other times reeeive even excessive rains.