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Crosse, Andrew F.

"Round About the Carpathians"


The baths of Tusnad--The state of affairs before
1848--Inequality of taxation--Reform--The existing land
laws--Communal property--Complete registration of titles to
estates--Question of entail 232

CHAPTER XXIII.
Fine scenery in Szeklerland--Csik Szent Marton--Absence of
inns--The Szekler's love of lawsuits--Csik Szereda--Hospitality
along the road--Wallack atrocities in 1848--The Wallacks not
Panslavists 243

CHAPTER XXIV.
Ride to Szent Domokos--Difficulty about quarters--Interesting
host--Jewish question in Hungary--Taxation--Financial matters 252

CHAPTER XXV.
Copper mine of Balanbanya--Miners in the wine-shop--Ride to St
Miklos--Visit to an Armenian family--Capture of a robber--Cold
ride to the baths of Borsek 260

CHAPTER XXVI.
Moldavian frontier--Toelgyes--Excitement about robbers--Attempt
at extortion--A ride over the mountains--Return to St Miklos 275

CHAPTER XXVII.
Toplicza--Armenian hospitality--A bear-hunt--A ride over to the
frontier of Bukovina--Destruction of timber--Maladministration
of State property--An unpleasant night on the
mountain--Snowstorm 282

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Visits at Transylvanian chateaux--Society--Dogs--Amusements at
Klausenburg--Magyar poets--Count Istvan Szechenyi--Baron
Eoetvos--'The Village Notary'--Hungarian self-criticism--Literary
taste 291

CHAPTER XXIX.


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