CHAPTER XIV

Improvements to Navigation--Rapids of the Jur--The Kasan Defile--Remarkable River Scenery--Trajan’s Tablet and Old Roman Roadway--Orsova and the Herkulesbad--Ada Kaleh, the Turkish Settlement--The Iron Gates--The Danube and the Ister--Origin of the Name of the Danube--We Lose our Admiral--The Iron Gates--Captured by Roumanian Soldiers--Under Military Supervision 197