Carpathians, a range of wooded mountains in Central Europe, 880 m. long, which, in two great masses, extend from Presburg to Orsova, both on the Danube, in a semicircle round the greater part of Hungary, particularly the whole of the N. and E., the highest of them Negoi, 8517 ft., they are rich in minerals, and their sides clothed with forests, principally of beech and pine.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carpaccio, Vittore * Carpeaux, Jean Baptiste