. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. eathers. The traffic was suddenly at an end. Oneman, angry, it seems, at being always disappointed, andyet half in joke, said— Well, youll see thai a judgmentwill come upon you for keeping those tailless brSome time after, the harvest failed, or there was a drought—I forget exactly what; and the people thought thethreatened judgment had really come. So, as atonement,war was declared against the Chinese, and a hecatomb ofthe long-legged birds were sacrificed, and lost their heads. The way to Sz. Reen be
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. eathers. The traffic was suddenly at an end. Oneman, angry, it seems, at being always disappointed, andyet half in joke, said— Well, youll see thai a judgmentwill come upon you for keeping those tailless brSome time after, the harvest failed, or there was a drought—I forget exactly what; and the people thought thethreatened judgment had really come. So, as atonement,war was declared against the Chinese, and a hecatomb ofthe long-legged birds were sacrificed, and lost their heads. The way to Sz. Reen beside the Maros is most pic- DOWN THE MAROS. 339 turesque. Any traveller will be delighted with it. Theroad then making was not yet finished, and formerly itwas not possible to get along there, except on foot orhorseback. Sometimes we drove in the broad bed of theriver, which we were obliged to cross eight times. Thehorses, clambering up and down, felt their way in a sur-prising manner. For a great part of the road, the valleyis just broad enough to let the river pass; occasionally it. WALLACE CHUECH. widens, and then on the upland are Wallack villages,with the painted wooden church on a little eminence;for the Greek churches are always placed, if possible, ona mound or hilltop. They are built of logs, like a log-house, the ends projecting, where they meet, across eachother. There is frequently an arched peristyle running z 2 340 TRANSYLVANIA. round the building, and that, as well as the porch andwalls are decorated with coloured arabesque ornamentsand figures of saints. Ail this is certainly the very rudestart, but still it looks pretty. In Norway, also, woodenchurches are to be found, but of ancient date (eleventh ortwelfth century). They are covered with Eunic carving,and this adornment, at a distance, looks much the sameas the painted tracery in these Roumain some graves was a cross, at the end of which,as at the end of a yard-arm, a smaller one nThis
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