. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. and the whole aspect ifl as line asin the Tyrol. I passed a village with the church en a neighbouringhill. When Hermannstadt was founded it was the same ; * While these sheets were £oin<_T through the press, the sad in\ I greached me of this excellent mans death. SOUTHWARDS. 517 the houses of the first settlers were below, but the strong-hold, where was the place of worship, stood on the higherground. The Saxon church at Leschkirch is another good speci-men of these citadels. It is surrounded by two
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. and the whole aspect ifl as line asin the Tyrol. I passed a village with the church en a neighbouringhill. When Hermannstadt was founded it was the same ; * While these sheets were £oin<_T through the press, the sad in\ I greached me of this excellent mans death. SOUTHWARDS. 517 the houses of the first settlers were below, but the strong-hold, where was the place of worship, stood on the higherground. The Saxon church at Leschkirch is another good speci-men of these citadels. It is surrounded by two walls, andover the portal of the inner one hangs a portcullis. Sixor seven strong towers rise above the wall, and give thelittle fortress a most picturesque appearance. Leschkirchis Saxon, but the keeper of the inn where I halted wasHungarian. We turned off into an oak wood, and then came into aplain filled with large-horned white oxen and bleatingflocks; and soon Agnetheln appeared before me, with itssquare-walled enclosure and towers at the corners, andthe remains of a moat in CUUKCll AT AG^NEriiELN. I passed here a most pleasant time, in company withthe accomplished historian of the Transylvanian countrymen are proud of him, and they are right to 518 TKAXSYLVANIA. be so, for he would be an ornament to any society in anycountry. It pleased me not a little to find that he kithe great work of Buckle, and fully appreciated it. A hill, near Agnetheln, is still called Csetate, orBurgh, by the Roumains. Thus, from generation to gene-ration, has the remembrance of the Roman fort, whichdoubtless once existed here, been handed down. The road from Agnetheln to Gross Schenkpretty. On mounting a hill, a sudden turn brings youagain in presence of the Alps. Marienthal lies below ynestling in a vale. There you pass a village with a cous church, a tower being at either end, and the chancelin the tower. And soon, if you have as fleet horshad, you will come rattling into t
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