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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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elves under-ground. The Dinaric Alps are not to be compared with the well-knownmountains bearing the latter name. The highest peaks, not much morethan 8000 feet, are found in Montenegro, and nowhere is there a regionof perpetual snow and glaciers. Approaching Bosnia from the north,from the fat and fertile Hungarian plain, one finds at first English-lookingscenery of green pastures and trees at the foot of the mountain slopes,but soon there is a tangle of ever-rising hills such as we are unacquaintedAvith; the scenery very rich, with well-watered valleys and heavily-timbered mountain slopes. On the south of the watershed, however, aswe descend to the coast through Herzegovina, the mountains becomeextraordinarily bleak and barren, and the strata of the limestone forma-tion are plainly visible, showing nakedly on the sides of the mountains,which look as if lines had been ruled on them and then, at times, roughly 1 An address delivered before the Society in Edinbiirgh on January 28, 1909.
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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. 73 broken up. In this hard region, as it is called, there are said to be more stones than grass. A great deal of the desolate aspect is attri-buted to the wanton destruction of the forests hj the Venetians for theirshipbuilding. The map also indicates the river basins of the Balkan peninsula, andthe drainage towards the Mediterranean and Adriatic, on the one hand,and the Black Sea on the other. You will observe that the lines of therivers run generally from north-west to south-east, and also that theDanube drains an enormous area. The importance of this great arterycannot be overestimated; it is a dominating fact in the countries northof the peninsula. There is only one bridge into the Balkan countriesover the Danube, at Chernavoda, which is further east than is shown inthis map, near the Black Sea, between Roumania and Bulgaria. Thebridge at Belgrade is across the Save river, and not the Danube. The other map illustrates the railway lines constructed and proposed.

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