| 
| garians are stated to be a handsome, 
well-formed, hardy race of men; they 
are indolent, proud, and revengeful ; but 
zenerous, hospitable, and brave. Their 
ress consists of a fur cap witha high 
ume of feathers, a close vest, and: a 
oose jacket trimmed with fur richly em- 
broidered, with pantaloons -and_half- 
_ boots, which are so common, “ that many 
_ a gentleman has passed his life without 
| ever having had a pair of shoes on his 
«« The ordinary dress of the burghers and 
the higher class of peasantry, in this part of 
the country, consists of a light blue jacket 
and pantaloons, and huzzar boots with tas- 
sels and spurs. The jacket is edged with 
fur, and both jacket and pantaloons are em- 
broidered down the seams. ‘I'he poorer class 
is obliged to be satisfied with a short shirt 
and trowsesr of coarse linen, the fabric of 
the country. As the weather grows cooler, 
they throw a rough blanket across their 
shoulders, and in winter, clothe themselves 
with a sheep-skin garment, which reaches 
down to their heels, and which, according 
to the temperature of the atmosphere, they 
wear with the wool or skin next them. At 
7¢ they convert it intoabed. They are 
» stout, and straight grown, but have 
‘heavy countenanees, end their long black 
‘greasy hair and huge whiskers give them the 
appearance of savages. . ‘The mey wear round 
felt hats with rims and broad shallow crowns, 
cand both men and women go without shoes 
and stockings. ‘The women who are not 
by any means so well-looked as the men, 
are kept in a state of slavish subordination, 
and aré not only employed in domestic 
culture, such as. digging, planting, and fol- 
lowing the plough.” 
and served as a centre for our traveller 
to make his excursions from. We must 
decline entering upon the description of 
tion of these letters. 
Hungary must visit its mines and the 
_ famed Carpathian mountains ; Mr. Hun- 
_ ter enjoyed every facility which letters 
of recommendation could afford him ; 
_ but the badness of the roads, and the ob- 
Stinacy of his guides, damped a great 
eal of his ardour; and yet he was so 
\ ger for the excursion, that when, at 
‘Cashau, although the opal mines of 
Czerwenitz are only a short day’s jour- 
they from that place, he was so fearful of 
i. * bein too late for the mountains,” that 
he could not preyail on himself to spare 
u y e. oo”. 
Hime to visit them! Mr. Hunter visited 
one of the copper mines at Schmdlnitz : 
there are several of them, some worked 
HUNTER’S TRAVELS IN HUNGARY. 
drudgery but’in ‘the ‘laborious parts of agri-” 
Buda is the capital of lower Hungary, © 
this city, as it was given in the first edi-_ 
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by the king, and others by private per- 
sons. Some of the caverns are one hun- 
dred and eighty fathoms in depth, and 
branch out at different stages in various 
directions, to a considerable extent. The 
works under ground:are immense; the 
pumps for raising water from the mines 
are similar in principle, but the machinery 
of- them ts much inferior to those in 
Cornwall. 
«© These mines, although some of them 
have been worked for centuries past, are far 
from being exhausted, every hundred weight 
of ore yielding from twe to twelve and evex 
fifteen pounds of pure copper.» The private 
mines are richer than those belonging to the 
king ; but the proprictors are obliged to pay 
a duty of seventeen per cent. on their pre- 
duce, for the privilege of working them. 
All the ore, both from the royal and pri- 
vate mines, us soon 2s it is brought up, is 
carried to tne public smelting houses, where 
it is melted and proved. ‘The number of 
workmen employed in the different miming 
departments surpasses two thousand, who 
are not paid by i day, but according tothe 
weight and pe tabs value of the ore; and the 
quantity of pure copper annually produced 
is about 15000 ewt. 
«« These mines bring ina considerable tz- 
venue to the crown, by which the chief part 
of their produce ispurchased. Copper, sim- 
ply refined, fetehes thirty-six florins a cwt. 
and, when manufactured into bars or plates, 
ahout, forty-eight.. But the most.lucrative 
use to which it is applied by the government, 
is conyerting it into coin; as, by this ope- 
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‘ ration, one cwt. which costs originally thirty- 
six florins, yields’ about eighty in money, 
leaving a prolit of forty-four per cent." 
‘Besides copper, these mines produce 
antimony and sulphur to a considerable. 
amount, and about twelve cwt. of cop-.- 
per is gained’annually by cementation... . 
At Gros Limnitz Mr. Hunter, having 
‘a letter to M. Berzevitzi, expressed to 
that gentleman his intention, of .scaling 
the feak, but is recommended to proceed 
to Hradec, with the view of -ascending 
the Krivan, which was supposed to be 
of easier access. When arrived at Hra- 
dec, however, he was. “rather morti- 
fied”? to learn, that ne could not accume- 
plish his project, in consequence of a 
heavy fall of snow. ‘There is another 
natural curiosity about five miles from 
“Hradec,” says Mr. Hunter, “ which is 
a subterraneous cavern called Deman- 
ovo, but the description of the road deterred 
me from going to see it.” So Mr. Hunter 
returned to his friend Berzevitzi at Gros 
Limnitz, where he seemed to enjoy his 
good quarters. Another valiant attack 
upon Limnitz, however, was determined 
