. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. the raw material in tlplaces, wrapped up in a greased rag; and the experimenthas frequently cost them their life. Tellurium is irare, especially when pure and unmixed with other mine-rals. Here, however, it is found in tins state, and ]>i<were shown me in quartz, etc., worth * As a proof how little open violence occurs in the country. I maystate, that the gold and silver are sent from the mine to Karhburg in acart with a single civil officer, vet no robbery lias vet taken place, thoughat ev
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. the raw material in tlplaces, wrapped up in a greased rag; and the experimenthas frequently cost them their life. Tellurium is irare, especially when pure and unmixed with other mine-rals. Here, however, it is found in tins state, and ]>i<were shown me in quartz, etc., worth * As a proof how little open violence occurs in the country. I maystate, that the gold and silver are sent from the mine to Karhburg in acart with a single civil officer, vet no robbery lias vet taken place, thoughat every village where the cart passes people know what it contains. f If we take 25,000/iJ. as the average profit, this leaves a yearfor working expenses, and the staff of inspecting EL DORADO. 533 There is a school for mining here. There arc manjr Ger-mans at Nagyagj as well as Roumains; indeed, it is nota little remarkable how Germans, all the world over, areintimately connected with mines; they are always thesearchers, and foot by foot work their way to the hiddengold of knowledge. The purification of metals by ascientific method emanated, I believe, from Germany; itis therefore not extraordinary if that country should bolooked upon as the genuine miners home. I rode from here over the hills to Boitza, along bridle-paths, through deep glens, and past little stragglingsettlements on the borders of the forest. The view beforeme for the first part of the way was most extensive,—anopen ocean of green plain, dotted with spots of sunlight. Now on one side of me is a bare hill, covered withholes, with heaps of earth before them, as though rabbitsburrowed there. Not a step from the wayside standclumsy doors, just high enough to admit a youth, leadingagain into the ea
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