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Publisher: Ward Library
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
L
imits, dimensions, and population of Roumania-Comparisonwith England-
Configuration of the surface-Altitudes of towns-Mountains-Appearance
of the country-The region of the plains-Plants and agricultural condition-
The peasantry-Female navvies-Costumes-Wells-Subterranean dwellings-
Marsh fever-Travelling, past and present-Zone of the hills-Plants, flowers,
fruits, and cereals-Cheap fruits-Improved dwellings-Wages of labourers-
Petroleumwells-Rock-salt-Mines-The Carpathians-Character of the scenery-
Alpine trees and plants-Sinaïa-TheKing's summer residence-The monastery-
Conveniences for visitors, baths, &c.-Occupations of visitors-Beautiful scenery-
The new palace-TheKing andQueen-Geology of Roumania-Scanty details-
The chief deposits and their localities-Minerals-Salt-Petroleum-Lignite-
Ozokerit- H matite-Undeveloped mineral wealth.
I.
The kingdom of Roumania is situated between 22 29' and 29 42' east of
Greenwich, and between 43 37' and 48 13' north of the equator. Its general
boundaries are, on the east and south, the Pruth and the Danube, with the
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exception of the Dobrudscha south of the latter river, at its embouchures,
and on thewestand north by the Carpathian mountains, alongwhose heights
the boundary line runs. The limit which separates it from Bulgaria, on the
south-east leaves the Danube just east of Silistria, and runs irregularly in a
south-easterly direction until it reaches the Black Sea, about nine miles and
a half south of Mangalia. (North-east of this line runs the Roumanian Rail-
way from Cernavoda to Constanta or Kustendjie, and south-west of it the
Bulgarian line from Rustchuk to Varna.) The kingdom presents the form
of an irregular blunted crescent, and it is very difficult to speak of its 'length'
and 'breadth;' but so far as we are able to estimate its dimensions they are as
follows: -A straight line drawn from Verciorova, the boundary on the west
at the 'Iron Gates' of the Danube, to the Sulina mouth of the same river on
the east, is about 358 miles; and another from the boundary near Predeal in
the Carpathians, on the line of railway from Ploiesti to Kronstadt, Transyl-
vania, to the southernmost limit below Mangalia on the Black Sea, is about
188 miles.[3]
The approximate area of Roumania is 49,250 square miles, and when it is
added that the area of England and Wales is nearly 51,000 square miles, the
reader will be able to form an estimate of the extent of the country.[4] But
having made this comparison, let us carry it a step further. According to
the latest estimates of the population there are about 5,376,000 inhabitants
in Roumania against 25,968,286 (according to last year's census) in England
and Wales; in other words, with an area equal to that of England, Roumania
has about one-fifth of its population, or about the same as Ireland.[5]
The general configuration of the surface of the country may be described as
an irregular inclined plane sloping down from the summits of the Carpathi-
ans to the northern or left bank of the Danube, and it is traversed by nu-
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