. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. this really isthe nineteenth and not the sixteenth century?you in a dream? though everything, especially the tre-mendous jolting of the waggon, as if it would come topieces, seems very real. And still in a sort of doubt yougo onward to the hostel, prepared to meet all that maypresent itself, however antiquated, without Burpric Presently the street opens on the niarket-plaand sufficiently spacious, but sloping somewhat ; for thehill on which the upper town is built descends hereabruptly into the very mi
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. this really isthe nineteenth and not the sixteenth century?you in a dream? though everything, especially the tre-mendous jolting of the waggon, as if it would come topieces, seems very real. And still in a sort of doubt yougo onward to the hostel, prepared to meet all that maypresent itself, however antiquated, without Burpric Presently the street opens on the niarket-plaand sufficiently spacious, but sloping somewhat ; for thehill on which the upper town is built descends hereabruptly into the very middle of the town. Indeed a partof Sclnissburg stands on this slope, one house uprisingbehind the other; and a steep street leads to the quarterabove. How you stare in wonderment at all you see thenthe architecture of the fine gateway with its \ e and TO SCHASSBURG. 21 most picturesque tower,* the narrow streets, and thecurious out-of-the-way places that you chance upon as yourove about. It is like Nuremberg and Ulm, with somethingof the quaint little towns with walls still round them, to. MARKET-PLACE, SCHASSBURG-. be found on the borders of the Rhine. Look where you may, some object is seen indicative of the troublous past. Everything is strong and for defence, and for guarding against surprise. Before reaching the gate of the Burgh is * The eaves-course of the tower of the new church, St. James the Less,Garden Street, Westminster, greatly resembles that of the tower in theBurgh of Schassburg. 216 TRANSYLVAMA. a strong, small oaken door, leading you know not whither,though, you would like to know it; then a covered way ;further on are steps for reaching a higher part, ihere you pass through a low arch and emerge on a -of platform overlooking the town; and what a con-glomeration of buildings just within the citadel ! Thereis the narrowest possible space between them,the passage can hardly be called a street. The hejust in this Thurm Strasse/ are small, but built withgreat stren
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