. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ns and nourishing hamlet- have 1turned into arid deserts, it was a fiercer fire than that ofvolcanoes, which swept onward to destroy. How fertile the province is, Low rich in naturalducts, we have seen. The greatest commercial enter-prises might here be undertaken with success. For theman with brains as well as money; for one capablcomprehending capabilities, with larg . and abl look beyond the immediate present, or the close-lyingboundary line, Transylvania presents Such a field for ac-tivity as, perh


. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ns and nourishing hamlet- have 1turned into arid deserts, it was a fiercer fire than that ofvolcanoes, which swept onward to destroy. How fertile the province is, Low rich in naturalducts, we have seen. The greatest commercial enter-prises might here be undertaken with success. For theman with brains as well as money; for one capablcomprehending capabilities, with larg . and abl look beyond the immediate present, or the close-lyingboundary line, Transylvania presents Such a field for ac-tivity as, perhaps, is not to be found again in the here the sphere of action is in Europe, among civilizedpeople; free from all the difficulties of distance and painsof separation, from the dangers of wild districts, and allthe misfortunes which attend the first explorers of a newcountry. Here, the man of enterprise has not to be thepioneer, but an organizer; he has not to contend withthe opposition of nature, or of inimical aborigines; the contrary, both would unite to aid him, and his. ;(; /////,,/,v, PublisWl by Longn GEOGRAPHY, METEOROLOGY, STATISTICS. 627 advent would be hailed with gladness and with welcom-es. Transylvanian corn is heavier than Hungarian; it isone of the best sorts in Europe; an English baker triedit, and found it to be so. How good the wine is, and thehemp, how excellent the horses, we already know. Butit is in other directions—in fabricating the raw produce—that so much could be achieved: chemical products*might be made, glue, starch, glass, and earthenware (thefiner sorts of each), paper, leather (both the common andthe finer sorts), good bricks for building; agriculturalimplements also,f which are every day coming more intouse; introduced as they have been by the Hungariangentlemen, J and all of which are now either broughtfrom Pesth or London. There are no cabinet-makerseither; and all the better furniture in the houses at Klau-senburg i


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