. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. garians in 1848; hence the new look whichthe buildings have. The principal trade is in wood, allwhich floats down the river to Czegedin, and thence onthe Danube to Vienna, Pesth, etc. The inhabitants(4771) are well off, which is shown by the mode of life 342 TRANSYLVANIA. and the interiors of the houses. Indeed, Sz. Reen is con-sidered to be one of the most prosperous of the Saxontowns.* Everywhere around, traces of the Romans areto be found,—instruments in bronze, coins, urns, monu-ments, and roads, o
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. garians in 1848; hence the new look whichthe buildings have. The principal trade is in wood, allwhich floats down the river to Czegedin, and thence onthe Danube to Vienna, Pesth, etc. The inhabitants(4771) are well off, which is shown by the mode of life 342 TRANSYLVANIA. and the interiors of the houses. Indeed, Sz. Reen is con-sidered to be one of the most prosperous of the Saxontowns.* Everywhere around, traces of the Romans areto be found,—instruments in bronze, coins, urns, monu-ments, and roads, one of which is still known as TheRoad of Trajan/ * It is characteristic that in so small a town as this, the followingbranches of knowledge should be taught in the public school. Accordingto a School Report of 1762, lectures were given on— 1. Grammatics et Hebraica. 2. Svntaxis. 3. Poesis. 4. Rhetorica. 5. Geographia. 7. Mathesis. 8. Logica et Philosophia, Theoretics etPractica. 9. Metaphjsis ; Jus Nat.; Philosophia Morum. 10. Iheolo-gia, Theologica et 343 CHAPTER XXII. A CIECUIT. For some time I had the privilege of being the guestof different Hungarian families, and enjoying the pleasantfamily life their homes afforded. In some were evidencesof the fearful storm which for awhile had raged through-out the land, and the wrecks caused by it were stillvisible. Each one had suffered; but a few, from havingproperty elsewhere, had been better able to retrieve theirfallen fortunes. In all of them I found the same de-lightful ease which everywhere, under all circumstances,characterized my intercourse with Hungarians. The wayin which the master or mistress met me on arriving atthe mansion had a positive charm in it, and made merejoice to have come so far to feel its influence. Butthis natural ease, the perfectly self-possessed air, com-bined with a most obliging manner, which, among otherpeople, only perfect breeding and the very best societyimpart,
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