Neusiedler Lake, a small lake on the north-west frontier of Hungary, 22 miles SE. of Vienna. It is shallow (13 feet), and has lost much of its former area (133 sq. m.) by the draining of the adjoining marshes—from 1865 to 1870 it was dry. Its brackish waters are valuable as medicinal baths.
Neusiedler Lake
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 449
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