generally-expressed

Updated: May 15, 2025

It was a generally-expressed opinion that something must have happened farther down the river to relieve the pent-up waters. Very shortly official news arrived, and spread like wildfire, that the Danube had made a way for itself right across the island of Csepel into the Soroksár arm of the river. Csepel is an island some thirty miles long, situated a short distance below Pest.

Andrew F. Crosse - Round About the Carpathians