. Review of reviews and world's work. places wherecurative springs have been known for hun-dreds of years Hll into secluded spots amongpine-forests; then rolling foot-hills for pas-turage and narrow valleys well cultivated,dotted with prett>- villages, make up a scenicsection noted for its beauty as a summerresort of Hungan-. The highest mountainridges act as frontier barricade, for not farfrom Brasso (Kronstadt) we meet perpen-dicular cliffs on Mt. Bucsees, where touristsclimb for a nights retreat. At Cloister Skitthese heights reach to nearly 5000 feet. Thenortheast fronts present heavily
. Review of reviews and world's work. places wherecurative springs have been known for hun-dreds of years Hll into secluded spots amongpine-forests; then rolling foot-hills for pas-turage and narrow valleys well cultivated,dotted with prett>- villages, make up a scenicsection noted for its beauty as a summerresort of Hungan-. The highest mountainridges act as frontier barricade, for not farfrom Brasso (Kronstadt) we meet perpen-dicular cliffs on Mt. Bucsees, where touristsclimb for a nights retreat. At Cloister Skitthese heights reach to nearly 5000 feet. Thenortheast fronts present heavily timberedmountainsides, the lumber-camps of Transyl-\ania; stretching still further north areThe Tatra, snow-clad peaks. So this ridgeof mountains circles to make a natural fron-tier for Hungar>-. A few passes enter Tran-s\lvania; the most important on the east isGyimes. which leads out with its branch rail-road to the main line, which circles Transyl-vania. Many of these connecting lines have RUMJXIJS TRJXSYLFJXIAN NEIGHBORS 411. THE SHEPHERD WALLACHS ....:,Ge/,^ been made in the past five years. Threepasses in the south complete these openings;the one connecting Budapest, via Brasso,with Bucharest is most important. The fastnesses of these mountains are most-ly peopled by Wallach-Rumanians, who al-ways pick out ravines, bf)rdcrs, gorges, andmountain streams as their haunts. So wefind six thousand of a shepherd class andhalf as many as mine-workers, for the ironmines of the s^juth have always employedalone the Wallach peasants. In Transylva-nia thf*se having Ru-manian blood num-ber half the popula-tion, while the other ^.half consists of theMaygars, the rulingelement, the edu-cated Saxon, theH u 1 Ka r, , Armenian,and Jew. The Saxons arementioned first, be-cau!tc the>, a% a prr>-plr of the 12th cen-tury, immigratingfrom the Rhine din-trict, have given ad-vanced culture tothe larger M>uthernci t ic» — Bra»H«i (Kronstadt), Nag}szeben (Hermanns
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