TOPOGRAPHY. Austria-Hungary is one of the most mountainous countries of Europe. The mountains are comprised in three great sys tems—the Alps, the Carpathians, and the Bohemian Highlands, which embrace the Sudetic Mountain System, the principal member of which is the Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains), the Erze gebirge (Ore Mountains), the B/ffnerwald, and a few minor ranges. The Alps cover the crown lands of Tyrol, Salzburg, Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, and the parts of Upper and Lower Aus tria south of the Danube. The eastern spurs of the Alps stretch through Croatia toward the southwestern part of Hungary. The total area of the Anst•o-Hungarian Alps is estimated at about 40,000 square miles, of which nearly 700 square miles are covered with glaciers. Their highest peaks are in the Rhaetian and Norie Alps, which extend from Switzerland to the Dan ube. The Ortler Spitzes the loftiest summit in Austria-Hungary, rises to a height of nearly 12,800 feet. The Carpathian 'Mountains, greatly inferior to the Alps in height, describe an im mense curve, amounting to two-thirds of a circle.
about Hungary, girding it on the north and east, and covering an extensive area in Transylvania. In their broad sweep of above SOO miles, from the Danube at Pressburg back to that river at the Iron Gates, they embrace the vast Hungarian plain, a region more level than the prairies of the United States. The highest peak of the Car pathians is the Gerlsdo•fer Spitze, about S700 feet. At the head of the Adriatic is the remark able highland region, of limestone formation, known as the Karst. On the borders of Dalmatia and Bosnia is a mountain range which bears the name of the Dinaric Alps. The mountains of Austria-Hungary are famous for their pictur esque scenery, and abound in caverns, some of them very large. The Adriatic coast-land, with its many islands, its bays, and frowning heights, is one of the most picturesque regions in Europe.