. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. /which he cannot understand. He fancies, too, he Losessomewhat of himself or his identity by the prceS8. A ladyartist, struck by the beauty of some children, had themfetched that they might sit to her; but they got in agreat fright, and it was only by degrees they were broughtto endure the penance. They never liked it, and even themoney they got would hardly induce them to come. Ithe same cause a gipsy will sometimes cover his face, whenyou look at him, for fear of being laid under a charm. In the neig
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. /which he cannot understand. He fancies, too, he Losessomewhat of himself or his identity by the prceS8. A ladyartist, struck by the beauty of some children, had themfetched that they might sit to her; but they got in agreat fright, and it was only by degrees they were broughtto endure the penance. They never liked it, and even themoney they got would hardly induce them to come. Ithe same cause a gipsy will sometimes cover his face, whenyou look at him, for fear of being laid under a charm. In the neighbourhood of the Kokel, I found that thegipsies intermarry with the Wallacks and this is general I cannot say, bnt I rather thinknot. Several of them possessed oxen, and were thereforecomfortably off. Just as the Wallack is fond of cattle,the gipsy has an especial taste for horses; perhaps thismay in some measure account for his skill in are everywhere the best farriers, and as black-smiths, generally, they excel. All the ironwork of a vil- :,!. A CIRCUIT. 353 lage is done by theni. They may almost be said to havea genius for that and for music. From Bonyha I drove, one morning, to Saros, wherethere is a very curious phenomenon. The following ac-count of it, by Hitter von Hauer, in his Geologie Sieben-biirgens/ I give in preference to my own :— (Inflammable gas streams out of the earth, at a placenear Kis-Saros, one-and-a-half hours distance north-eastof Baassen, at a somewhat wet spot on the north side of ahill, between grass and maize fields. The spot itself isnamed Zugo/ by the natives; and it is about 1 \ fathom indiameter, and sparingly covered with reed-grass. Withinthis were several holes of 6-12 inches in breadth anddepth, some dry, others full of water. In the former ahissing noise was heard, in the others a ferment (auf-brausen), accompanied by a not inconsiderable straw being ignited here, the gas burned till it wasext
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