. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. WHAT IS WANTED. 605 cess. As soon as an iron road joins the province, on onehand, with Western Europe, and with Turkey, the Le-vant, and the vast East, on the other, the propitious com-binations become so manifold, that evident as the resultmust be, one is almost inclined to believe that Fancy ishere playing* a part and throwing a brilliancy over thecontemplated picture. But it is not so ; and sober reason-ing, incredulous at first, is forced to own that the colour-ing is real. To Transylvania, the exi
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. WHAT IS WANTED. 605 cess. As soon as an iron road joins the province, on onehand, with Western Europe, and with Turkey, the Le-vant, and the vast East, on the other, the propitious com-binations become so manifold, that evident as the resultmust be, one is almost inclined to believe that Fancy ishere playing* a part and throwing a brilliancy over thecontemplated picture. But it is not so ; and sober reason-ing, incredulous at first, is forced to own that the colour-ing is real. To Transylvania, the existence of railway communica-tion with the rest of Europe is of such vital importance,that any line, no matter which, would, one might think,have been eagerly accepted.* The Hungarians, however,were so determined on the Klausenburg line, that everynerve was strained to have it carried out. An importantstep was to delay a decision being come to on the Her-mannstadt line, and this they effected; indeed, the energyand activity of the Magyar, on national or political ques-tions, are not to be
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