![]() ![]() ![]() In high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grownislands is almost topped by the water, but in normal seasons the bushesbend and rustle in the free winds, showing their silver leaves to thesunshine in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffyblue, growing fainter in color as it leaves the banks, and across it may beseen in large straggling letters the word Sumpfe, meaning marshes. ![]() Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Newman and PG Distributed ProofreadersĪfter leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danubeenters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its watersspread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the countrybecomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of lowwillow-bushes. ![]()
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