. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. y, exposed to the severe coldof winter, with coats as shaggy as bears, and with littleor no corn. Count Lazar has also, near Maros Vasarhely,a considerable stud. He has spent large sums for thebest English blood, and the horses he has bred are par-ticularly showy animals,—rather long-legged, but withgood points about them. They are, I should think, lesswell fitted to stand much wear and tear than those ofCount Teleki. During the revolution, the different noble-men lost, in addition to other valuable pr
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. y, exposed to the severe coldof winter, with coats as shaggy as bears, and with littleor no corn. Count Lazar has also, near Maros Vasarhely,a considerable stud. He has spent large sums for thebest English blood, and the horses he has bred are par-ticularly showy animals,—rather long-legged, but withgood points about them. They are, I should think, lesswell fitted to stand much wear and tear than those ofCount Teleki. During the revolution, the different noble-men lost, in addition to other valuable property, their* Before 1848 the taxes amounted to two millions; they are now eleven. 346 TllANSYLVANIA. well-furnished studs, brood-mares, and stallions, whichhad been brought from England at a great expense. Maros Vasarhely is the largest of the Szekler towns, andthe centre of Szekler political life, just as Klausenburghas become the metropolis of the Hungarian town has broad streets and well-built houses. Thereare excellent public schools, Catholic and Protestant,—the. STREET IN MAKOS-VASAKHELY. latter richly endowed. But the pride of the town is thechoice library of the late Chancellor, Count TelekL Heleft it to his family, on condition that it should bo alwaysopen to the public. The library itself is handsome, andthe collection, especially rich in Greek and Latin clgives ample proof of the taste of the noble founder. Thereis, among other curiosities, a manuscript Taeitus from thelibrary of King Mathew Corvinus. If proof were n< A CIRCUIT. 347 of the blessed results of easy communication between onepart of a land with the other, it is to be found here. Sincethe existence of a new road, the Gyergyo district, whichhas little corn, has been enabled to obtain its suppliesfrom the fruitful plains bordering the Maros, instead ofimporting it, as formerly, from distant Moldavia. Whatan anomaly, for example, was it that, while in this valemaize was only two flori
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