. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ferent three hundred yeago. Here, away from the walls and the besinhabitants seemed to have breathed more freely. Theygave themselves more room; housesnor were the walls nor the interiors (^ such ] >n .strength. Bevond this was a covered archway or tun-nel that led to a spot halfway up the hillsnh . the gateway and ruined bastion stood which I had Been fia distance on first approaching the place. The wall (<(circumvallation had been flanked at intervals with towiand nothing could be more pictures
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ferent three hundred yeago. Here, away from the walls and the besinhabitants seemed to have breathed more freely. Theygave themselves more room; housesnor were the walls nor the interiors (^ such ] >n .strength. Bevond this was a covered archway or tun-nel that led to a spot halfway up the hillsnh . the gateway and ruined bastion stood which I had Been fia distance on first approaching the place. The wall (<(circumvallation had been flanked at intervals with towiand nothing could be more picturesque than these, stand-ing on all sides on the steep declivity, while the old wallwent now up the most precipitous places and now trees, following every bend in the uiu . TO SCHASSBURO. 217 At tlie very summit stand the church and the Gymnasium,to which a long, straight, covered flight of steps never was tired of groping about the passages andstreets, and prying into the courts behind the houses,making at every step some new discovery, and findingcause for STREET IN SCHASSBUEG. Before the evening closed in, I went up to the belfry ofthe church. I looked down on the high, steeply-sloping,tiled roof of a square tower that rose from the fortresswall. Its shape and build told of the middle was the churchyard, and, bordering it in pell-mellconfusion, straggling up the hill, houses of dwellers inthe Burgh. Away to the east lay a fertile plain. Roundthe town were slopes covered with beeches, and to the 218 TRANSYLVANIA. west was a wooded declivity; while between this and themound of the citadel ran a ridge, dividing the one dale inwhich the town lay from a new valley on the other could look over into it. On the top of the ridgechurchyard, with poplars and willows. There was foliageeverywhere, and yonder, winding through it, ran theriver. The windows on the four sides of the belfry formedthe frame to my pictures, each different and riv
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