Quite different however is the aspect of the Danube in winter, when it is frozen over, and all shipping is suspended; mighty floes of ice cover its surface, and when, in drifting, they become blocked the masses of ice pile up one upon another and the water mounts higher and higher. Such ice blocks have in olden times caused great floods and in later years have often given cause for anxiety, though, since the raising of the bank great danger no longer exists.
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Royal Castle (from the Christina suburb)
Adapted from Illustrated Description of Hungary and its Capital
