7% VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
upon: after an hour’s march, finding a of a deep tub, with an iron stove 
it, standing on three legs; there was 
funnel for conveying the smoke, and 
tube passing from the stove to the side 
the vessel, for the introduction of fuel 
so that the stove, which may be heated 
to any degree, when the vessel is full, 
stands in the middle of the water. By 
this method of boiling there is said t 
be a saving of six parts of fuel out of - 
seven. This hint is worthy of attention, — 
suug sheltered spot, our mountaineer 
and his companion halted, and kindled a 
good fire! when sufficiently rested, they 
proceeded till “an insurmountable bar- 
rier of snow’’ put a stop to their intre- 
pid career. Mr. Hunter, unfortunately, 
is ignorant of mineralogy and botany ; 
he took this excursion simply for the 
purpose of admiring the grand and aw- 
‘ful scale on which nature presents herself 
nmong lofty mountains, and merely tells 
us, that many beautiful and rare alpine 
lants are to be met with, ‘ the collect. 
ing of which, to those who are fond of 
botanizing,” says he very gravely, “must 
be an interesting amusement!” Such 
of our readers as are desirous of being 
acquainted with the natural productions 
of the Carpathian Alps, we recommend 
to turn from these unprofitable rambles 
to Dr. Townson’s mineralogical and bo- 
tanical excursions among them : his tra- 
vels through Hungary, published in 
1797, contain a great variety of curious 
and interesting information. F 
At Soovar Mr. Fiunter saw the salt- 
works: 
«© The mines belong to the emperor. For- 
merly the salt was made from the rock, 
which is in great abundance. But, for 
many years past, it has been collected from 
the water which flows through the mines, 
and which is so strongly impregnaied with 
saline particles, that one hundred weight of 
water yields twenty-five pounds of salt. [tis 
drawn up in large leathern buckets from 
a well eighty-one fathoms deep, and fifty- 
five to the surface of the water, The 
great pan, in which the water is boiled, is 
emptied every two hours, when the salt is 
put into casks, which remain four and twen- 
ty hours in the drying houses. They manu- 
facture, at present, about two hundred 
weight daily; but, by the new works which 
are erecting on an improved and much larger 
scale, they are in hopes that the quantity 
produced ‘will not be less than five-hundred 
weight. Thisis a profitable concern for the 
emperor, as the salt costs him only about 
tiventy creutzers the hundred weight, and is 
sold at three florins eight creutzers. ‘The 
magazines of wood are also very considera- 
ble.” . 
Mr. Hunter visited the copper works 
at Neuschl, and the amalgamating ap- 
paratus, erected by Baron Born, ‘‘ for 
quicksilver, gold and silver from their 
ores ;”’ the invention did not answer ; 
but in one of the rooms Mr. Hunter saw 
ar useful machine for heating water. It - 
was a large wooden vessel m the form 
employed in the works at and near 
Neusohl, and two thousand toises of © 
wood are annually consumed at the dif. 
ferent forges. 
those immense forests which extend thirs _ 
ty or forty miles along the banks of the — 
Grau, where four hundred people are 
employed a great part of the year in 
hewing it. 
in plates here for 
quintal, produces, when coined, one 
hundred and sixty-four. ‘ 
to west, 
portunity afforded him in the early part 
-of the year 1800, and made an excursion 
to the south, 
santry here is remarkable: Mr. Hunter 
attributes it, very plausibly, to the na, 
tural fertility of the. soil. 
never manures his land, and only ploughs 
three or four inches deep: it'yields, ne- 
vertheless, abundant crops of excellent 
wheat and other grain, tobacco, and 
a variety of delicious fruits. 
is the abundance of wood (in the neigh- 
bourhood of Essek, the capital of Slavo- 
nia) and the laziness of the people, that 
when they are in want of fuel or timber, 
to save themselves the trouble of using 
the axe, they kindle a large fire round 
the trunk, which is kept burning till thy 
tree falls. : 
branches and leave the stumps, which 
have frequently seen remaining,” says 
Mr. Hunter, “after the ground has been 
converted into arable Jand.” 
general remark of strangers, that in man 
parts of Hungary the houses are dispro- 
portioned and inadequate to the popula- 
tion: the manner in which Mr. Hunter 
accounts for this gives one a striking idea 
of the semi-barbarized state of the pea- 
the purpose of extracting by a process of santry, Ten or twelve families are joint 
possessors of the same tenement; the vas 
rious members. of this community are, 
showever, widely dispersed. None but 
infant.children, the superannuated, : 
the sick, are admitted as constant cccu- 
Upwards of five thousand men are 
The fuel is brought from — 
a 
he copper, which is sold — 
hhey-five florins the 
Having traversed Hungary from east 
fr. Hunter profited by an op 
The indolence of the peas 
The farmer 
“ Such 
They then carry off the larg 
It is the 
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