The Danube and the Black Sea Author:Thomas Forester Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Section II. Modths Op The Danube.—Its course traced down from Rust- chuck to the Sea.—Report of Captain Spratt, B.N.—Difficulties of the Navigation,—and of Hi... more »e operations proposed for clearing the Mouths. The Danube—that " noble artery of central " Europe "—is the natural link of its commerce and intercourse with the countries lying on the shores of the Black Sea, and the channel for conveying the produce of the fertile districts it traverses to ports from which it may be shipped for the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The navigation begins at Ulm, which is made a depot of goods from France, Germany, the banks of the Rhine, and Switzerland, for transmission to the Moldo-Wallachian Provinces and other parts of the Turkish dominions both European and Asiatic. During its course, the Danube passes through Course four (formerly five) political divisions, and receives Danube- the waters of thirty navigable rivers, and ninety lesser streams. With this continued augmentation of its strong current, after a course of 1,547 miles, the river flows into the Black Sea through several channels, into which it branches on becoming entangled with its vast delta; and such is the volume of water it discharges, that the addition is said to be perceptible at the distance of fifty miles from its mouths. Wilson's Lowlands of the Danube, p. 63. Dr. Clarke says: " Having passed the Isle of Serpents, we fell in with the current Our immediate object requires no further notice of the traffic of which the Danube is the channel in its earlier course ; though that, from whatever point of the stream it may be brought down, will naturally find its way to the sea by the most convenient outlet. Our main business is with The Lower the Lower Danube, anciently called the Ister, anube' and long the bound...« less