. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. r then the ruinwhich is impending over it would be averted. You enterby a broad stone archway into a large court, where all that * Friedrich Miiller, Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Romanischen Sty Isin Siebenbiirgen. Wien, 1859, p. 19. f See in that most interesting work, Lives of the Engineers, vol. i. ,1861, an account of a curious memorial of the past, in the shape of DunstanPillar, a column seventy feet high, erected about the middle of last cen-tury, in the midst of the then dreary, barren waste
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. r then the ruinwhich is impending over it would be averted. You enterby a broad stone archway into a large court, where all that * Friedrich Miiller, Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Romanischen Sty Isin Siebenbiirgen. Wien, 1859, p. 19. f See in that most interesting work, Lives of the Engineers, vol. i. ,1861, an account of a curious memorial of the past, in the shape of DunstanPillar, a column seventy feet high, erected about the middle of last cen-tury, in the midst of the then dreary, barren waste, for the purpose ofserving as a mark to wayfarers by day and a beacon to them by nights 364 TRANSYLVANIA. meets the eye tells of ancient time. At the end is amassy tower, to which a covered flight of steps leads, aswell as to an open gallery that runs along one side of thecourt. There is another smaller court or garden, whereformerly were handsome halls, as the remains of frescoesand the slender shafts of columns plainly show. Every-where are interesting traces of antiquity. It is a de-. OLD TOWER II AT KEliESD light to wander round the place, and, discovering hereand there fragments of what once was, to rebuild in ima-gination the old stair or the noble hall, or the archwaythat is now half fallen. The old kitchen, with its massystonework and the well close by ; the cellar, to whichyou descend by a few steps, with its groined arches orna-mented with tracery and the stone pulpit on one side. A CIRCUIT. 365 showing that the place was once used as a chapel; thecoats-of-arnis and letters, with ancient dates, still legible inthe walls,—all give a charm to the spot, and tell you ofa time long since past. One inscription says, Thisold castle was repaired 1557. Thus three hundredyears ago it was thought ancient. The oldest date to befound is 1340, with the initials M. B(ethlen). An old-fashioned bedstead has the name Clara Karoli, 1578; itis little better than a trough, but mus
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