. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. A C1ECUIT. 373 book, and the children, after school, then carried thewood they had brought their teacher into his woodshedor storehouse. In the Protestant church-porch, was hung up by aniron chain, a round stone, as large as a cannon , a girl who had lost her innocence was obligedto sit at the church door for a certain number of Sundays,with this stone round her neck; and, only after havingthus expiated her fault, was she allowed again to enterthe sacred edifice.* * This reminds of the arr
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. A C1ECUIT. 373 book, and the children, after school, then carried thewood they had brought their teacher into his woodshedor storehouse. In the Protestant church-porch, was hung up by aniron chain, a round stone, as large as a cannon , a girl who had lost her innocence was obligedto sit at the church door for a certain number of Sundays,with this stone round her neck; and, only after havingthus expiated her fault, was she allowed again to enterthe sacred edifice.* * This reminds of the arrangement in the ancient basilicas. In thenarthex or colonnade next to the church, which took the place of the ori-ginal atrium, those persons stood who were penitents, or who were notyet permitted to enter the church itself. See Fergusson, Handbook MANSION AT GEE>YESZJ;G. 374 CHAPTER XXIII. TO BISTKITZ. Immediately around Saasz Re- ered with oak and vines, and from the hilltop a view is afforded of the pleasing Vale of the Maros or Microsch, as well asof the Gorgeny valley. In the distance, as usual, appearmountain summits ; but, before long, the landsabare, and instead of woods, ploughed fields aloni Some miles further on, a spot is reached where theroad descends precipitously, and you look down on alarge market-town with broad streets, trim houses, anda handsome fortified church. Jt is Teckendorf;*as you take a birds-eye view of the place, yon for thehundredth time wonder anew at what the diligence, thrift,and order of these German colonists have enabled them toaccomplish. It is not their towns which so much astonish * Teckendorf, like Saasz Kegen, Klausenburg, and some other Saxonplaces, was prevented from joining and forming a part of the Saxon was in the fifteenth century. They fell under the authority of the
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