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Reforms. Chamber of Deputies. Sessio Circularis. Petition
in Favour of Poland. — Deputies' Salaries. — Composition of the
Lower Chamber.-County Members. — Delegate System ; its Ad-
vantages in Hungary. - Borough Members. - Members of the
Clergy, of Magnates, and of Widows of Magnates. – Busi-
ness of the Diet. Proposed Reforms in the Lower Chamber. –
Chamber of Magnates. The Palatine. Debate. Ferdinand
the First or Fifth ?— Trick of the Government.—Character of
the Chamber composed of Prelates, Barons, and Counts of
the Kingdom, and titular Nobles. Anomalous Position of the
Chamber. Reforms essential to its Independence and Useful-
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CHAPTER VII.
DANUBE FROM PRESBURG TO PEST.
Departure from Presburg.–The Danube. — Regulation of its
Course. - Mills. - The Islands Great and Little Schütt. - Raab.
Komorn. Neszmély and its Wine. Gran. - Crusaders and
Turks. The Dinner. Contrast with a Voyage on the Da-
nube before the Introduction of Steam.. -Miserable Boats. Com-
pany. - Journey. - Spitz. Sleeping Accommodations. The
Toilette.-Wissegrád, and Wissegrádi Clara. - Beautiful Scenery.
Waitzen. — Approach to Pest
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CHAPTER VIII.
COUNT SZÉCHENYI ISTVÁN.
Count Széchenyi, an Officer of Hussars, a Traveller, a Reformer.
- Improvement in the Breed of Horses. — Races. — Magyar
Language. - Széchenyi’s Writings — the “Credit” — his Judg-
“
ment on England - Character of his Writings. – Establishment of
Casino. Bridge over the Danube. — Nobles taxed.
Steam
Navigation. - Political Career. – Prudence. — M. Tasner. 204
Drive round the Town. — Fiacres. New Bridge. — Casino.
Redout. — Quays and Streets. Sand-storms. — Increase of Pest.
-Museum. - Learned Society. - Meyer Höfe-Neugebäude. —
Plain of Rákos. Ancient Diets. . Modern Reviews.- Races.
Shop Signs. — Bridge of Boats. — Tolls. — Rowing. -- Elizabeth
Island. Buda. Public Buildings. — Royal Statthalterei.
Austrian Policy. - Fortress. — Turks in Hungary. — Turkish
.
Remains. Environs of Buda. — Love for the Picturesque.-
Gödölö. - Bureaucracy. - Blocksberg
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CHAPTER X.
FÜRED AND THE BALATON.
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Excursion to Füred. - Inn at Márton Vásár. Houses under
ground. - Style of Travelling. – Stuhlweissenburg. – Veszprim.
—
Minaret. Bishop. Treading out the Corn. Füred
Reception - Theatre. — The Balaton. - Dinner Party, - Soirée.
·
- Hungarian Beauty. - Ball. — Waltzing. - H—'s Adventures
at Tihany. — Supper at the Restaurant's — its Consequences. -
Serenade. — Gipsy Band. — Four-in-hand Driving. - Tihany.
Monastery.
- Fossils. Tradition of the Peasants.-Second Ball.
- The Polonaise. - The Hungarian Dance.-— Return 255
CHAPTER XI.
COUNTRY LIFE AND PEASANTRY.
Occupations of the Hungarian country Gentleman.-Silk-grow-
ing. -- Merino Sheep. — Granary. - English Horses. - Hunting.
- Peasants. Peasant Cottages at Z-:- Arrangement
Furniture Plenty and Comfort. Contrast with other Vil-
resa.
lages. - Former State of Peasantry. - Urbarium of Maria The-
Improved Urbarium of 1835. Peasants not Serfs.
Evil Effects of present System. - Similarity of Urbarial Tenure
to English Copyhold. - Grievances of the Peasantry. - Prospect
of Improvement
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CHAPTER XII.
SCHEMNITZ AND THE MINES OF HUNGARY.
Waitzen Schlag-baum. — Bishop and Bigotry. – Deaf and
Dumb School. Austrian Financial Measures. Tobacco. Inn
at Terény and Magyar Host. Nemeti. The Hack-bred.
Entrance to Schemnitz. The Calvary Hill. Legend of the
Miner's Daughter. — Mines. — School of Mines. — Mining Stu-
dents. - Visit to the Mines. Roman Mines. Method of Min-
ing among the Romans. — Direction and Management of the
Mines. — Pay of the Miners. — Joseph the Second's Adit. -
Washing Mills. - Prince Coburg's House. - Magistrates of Schem-
nitz. Impertinence of an Ober-notair. The Castle. The
Dwarf and his Spurs. - The Haiduk's Roguery
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CHAPTER XIII.
SCHEMNITZ AND THE MINES OP HUNGARY.
Departure from Schemnitz. — Sunday Dress of the Miners and
their Wives.-Neusohl.- The Landlord's Room. The Market.-
The Sclavack Belt. — Dyetva Peasants.— Visit to a Country Gen-
tleman. - Kind Reception.-Smelting-house.—Collection of Mine-
rals. Beet-root Sugar. Manufactures in Hungary. - Castle of
Lipcse. - Field Nursing. - Mysteries of the Castle. -Sliács. -
Bathing in Company. – Altsohl. — Mathias Corvinus.— Prisons
and Prisoners. - Flogging.– Werböczy. - Burnt Village. - The
- — .
Veil. — Kremnitz. - Mines. Mountain Fall.—Mint. - The Sil-
berblick
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE HUNGARIAN NOBLES.
Nobility in Hungary a Privilege, not a Rank. — Bulla Aurea,
similar to our Magna Charta. — Privileges of Nobles. — Tenure of
Property not feudal. — The Insurrection. - Non-payment of
Taxes.- Classes of Nobility. - The Magnates.- Count Crachat.
- The Gentry. - The “One-house” Nobles — their Hospitality.
- The Constituency of Hungary compared to that of other consti-
tutional Nations.—The Costume of the Nobles. Page 398
CHAPTER XV.
THE NORTHERN CARPATHIANS.
The Carpathians. The Krivan. The Lomnitzer Head. -
Schmöcks, a Bathing-place. — Excursion to the Valleys of the
Kahlbach, and Five Lakes. — A Country Gentleman of the Old
School. - Hungarian Freedom compared with English. - A Cha-
mois Hunt. — A Scene in the Mountains.— The Jägers, and their
Story of the Bear and the Wood-ranger. - Kesmark and the
Tökölys. The Zipser Protestants. Caraffa's Persecutions.
Mysterious Adventure at Leutschau
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Church of Kirchdrauf. Cholera Troubles in Zips. - The
Stadt-Hauptmann of Eperies. - Kaschau.- Austrian Officers. -
Stephan's Dismissal. Mines of Schmölnitz. Cementwasser.
German Settlers.-Rosenau.-Mustaches.- -Castle of Murány.
- Wesselényi's Wooing of Szécsi Maria. — Requisites for Tra-
velling in Hungary. - Cavern of Aggtelek. – A Bivouac. -
Miskolcz. Tokay. The Theiss. The Wine of Tokay
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