. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. g town, and, a- background, therock with its protecting fastness, and strong gateiand towers, and bastions and advanced work- t«» guarda weak point. This was another of those burghs built bythe Saxon settlers tbr their protection. The whole ;-considerable extent, and must have been of great besides the steepness of the site, the high walls risingone behind the other at distant intervals would have nit difficult to gain an entrance Sometimes thee - outof the solid rock, and time haying amal
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. g town, and, a- background, therock with its protecting fastness, and strong gateiand towers, and bastions and advanced work- t«» guarda weak point. This was another of those burghs built bythe Saxon settlers tbr their protection. The whole ;-considerable extent, and must have been of great besides the steepness of the site, the high walls risingone behind the other at distant intervals would have nit difficult to gain an entrance Sometimes thee - outof the solid rock, and time haying amalgamated all inone harmonious tint, it was not well possible to say wherenature ended and where the work ^4 mens hands began. I wTas not long in going up to the castle, for iruin has for me an irresistible fascination. Once withinthe precincts, you wound your way upwards as in thewindings of a shell, stopped every now and then t• gateway, or what had been one. And so you wentleaving a wall behind you and having still another topass—to escalade it would have been a formidable task—. BURGHER STRONGHOLDS. 245 till you arrived at the apex of the rock,—a narrow spot,with a house lately repaired standing on it. From herethe whole might be overlooked, and the town below, andthe broad expanse of country. The houses and gardens were laid out with the nicestregularity. All was straight, duly apportioned, andmathematically exact. The well-built white houses, allquite alike, with their red-tiled roofs and green blinds andornaments, a poplar here and there, and the straight lineof garden behind each house, reminded me of the littlepainted houses, and trees, and sheepfolds which childrenhave as playthings, and set out on the table in trimregularity. In the middle of the town was the well-paved market-place and town-hall. Around it were the houses of themore substantial burgesses, and then the long main streetdiverged right and left, with its shops, and inns, andspacious courtyards a
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