Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-17


formation of something new, with
new ideas, new aims, and with 3 COM
plete emancipation from the old char
acter and ideas, is now in ORDER Gin
cifnsdti Gazette. tna -.'0i' i''i
THE DANUBE.-The Danube. is IN
questionably Beautifully though not at
all bloe,lss Strauss's popHiaF waltz o has
limnedi it. Its descents properly made
isas instructive asit is pleasurahle, fol
itintroducesyoa to.many euri9ps and
.charming cities, to great diversity O
scenery, to numerous interesting char.
acters and strangely different natiouali.
ties.t svRa .lasToaw xs3riilssi EF
The Danube includes almost all that
lis remarkable in the otherriyers Of the
Gontinent.iaIn the ,first place, itsrepre-
sents to an American what it claims to
be. 1t is not creek nor an insignif.
cantstream, ike the Rlbicon, tha, Ti,
Der eri4the AArno; it. really contains
water, and q vast volume sofnit, and
would be regarded as q srespeetsble
river even IN this land OF large ideas
and splendid distaneesse Much larger
than the iNeiga, the lsYistnls,y or the
Dneiper, and with every advantage Of
scenery POSSESSING the soft charm and
quiet loveiihess OF the M5selle, with
more on than, tine bold outline Of the Elbe,
added to theAeautY and grandeur Of the
Rhine--the Danube easily outstripsits
rivals, and rolls through its broadehan'
nels majestic, glorious, and triumph l.1
after all it's windings and interrupt Ions,
to lose itselfin the waves Of the Eu1ine
sea. Though far more itosthous Tand
broken in its course, 1t IS the Mississip-
pi OF the Continent, Yiyidly recalling
in many parts the FatherYsof Waters.
The mighty riversreprodaces all the
noted streams both OF. aatfe Old lWorld
and the Naw,,e and floating oyer its
checkered surfaces + have often thought,
aThis is the Hudsen; and that 5isrthe
Juniata; see. the Susquehanna; observe
the Missouri; here is, the st, Lswrence;
there the Moselle; we have reached the
..volga; we are passing down the Eibe;
behold the Po; and yonder is = taAN the
Bhtne u - s5ns!niistmoo 1sd uIiS III.
sWIt is remarkable hows much travel
freshens our geography UhtilsI had
begun, to study the Dalube In the book
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OF Nature, I had weil-nfgn prgettsin
that it owes it's origin to the Rrege and
and the Bfigach, two smalh streams
rising on the eastern slope ofthe Black
Forest, in the Grand Dich Of Baden.
at an elevation Of nearly twenty-nine
hundred feet aboxeT the Sseaoy They
unite at the village oftD Denaiieschingen;
and 4 Ia the colrs- ard 0f the handsoGsE q
residence Of, Prince Eurstenb bqrg IS tRe
spring whictIsis declared tesbe sthe
f6iintain5head 66fthB greaS rivezd The
spring, inclossd id marble basin, Ois Cd
Iimpid and pure that + eonid not help
drinking from it, ssiissthe custom 9f
Its4oseiwfio visit Che place.esAn old Ger
man tradition declares that he who
slakes his thirst at the fopn ntain,head of
the Danube viii, some day be- borne to
good fortune0nits bosombGs ,Io6yna /
The Basin OF the river contains, it is
estimated, some two hundred and sew
enty thousand square miles, while the
direct distance from source to mouth is
about one thousand miles, and its COM
plete length, including all its windings,
fully Twenty-Five hundred miles, The
Danube flows, !, in its innnmerable SIM ,SsInu-
esities, to every point d. the compass,
though its general course is from west
to east.vtLt,goes northeast TO Ratissbboiii
in Bavaria; then southeast to WaiItzsnl
in Hungary; kes a sudden bend there
nearly due south to its conjplpep ion with
the DraYe, in Sclayonia, whence it runs
southeast tosBelgrades in sseryias fopr1
tinues its general easterneourselta its
with the Befeslis, and ssxr
tends to ofsova, There II takes "a alb
rupt turn to the southeast and enters
The Turkish provinces, ,ufoFmiRg the
bodndarybetween waIlachia and diBul-S
saria,i At Rassoya, 1T the southeastern
extremity of Wallacbia. It fiows alm6st
1ifectlyfnorth to Ghiatz.q 10. sMoldsyiH,
where it again bends To- the southeast, |
md eighty miles further eaipt ies ! i into |
-ba Rlack Sea.-sIIJN5IIs HEERT |