2 M. Beudanfs Travels in Hungary. 



that were uninhabited before. One fact is remarkable, that 

 wherever the Sclavonians form fresh establishments, the Ger- 

 mans and Hungarians either become blended with them, or 

 soon disappear. Several even of the Town Mines, which are 

 now become Sclavonian, as M. Schwartner observes, retain a 

 decisive mark of their denationalization, in their names, as 

 also those of many families, being of German origin. 



The Slowacks are in general pretty well made, and they 

 dress rather neatly, and at times elegantly, on their holidays. 

 Their summer dress consists of cloth pantaloons, of buskins, 

 of a cloth waistcoat without sleeves, garnished with very large 

 silver buttons, in the form of little bells, and chased on the 

 surface. The waistcoat open, lets the shirt appear, which is 

 embroidered on the breast and sometimes on the sleeves. A 

 leather girdle serves to fasten the clothes about the body; it 

 incloses also the steel, the tinder-box, the pipe, and the to- 

 bacco-pouch. In winter a large pelisse of cloth, or of sheep 

 skin, suffices to protect them from the rigours of the season. 

 As to head-dress, it varies in different places ; frequently the 

 head appears bare, the hair oiled and pretty well combed. In 

 some parts they wear a large round hat, in others a sort of 

 high hood, a foot and a half in length, and without a brim ; it 

 is a coif or cap of felt. The women appear in buskins with 

 copper heels, adorned with little bells ; they have cloth petti- 

 coats and corsets without sleeves, mostly of a dark colour. 

 Their chemise is commonly embroidered about the sleeves, 

 which are sometimes edged also with a coarse lace. Young 

 girls have their hair tied behind in a queue, trimmed with rib- 

 bands of all colours, that float on the back. The women adjust 

 their head dress with a long cloth band, which, from the mid- 

 dle of the head, falls crossways on the chin j the two ends 

 turned behind about the neck, are again brought forward so as 

 to fall elegantly on the breast. This coiffure so completely 

 overspreads the face, that scarcely is even the nose visible. 

 Its singularity may be accounted for from the piercing winds 

 to which they are exposed at morning, night, or occasionally 

 in the day-time, and which prove very troublesome, if the neck is 

 not well covered. To the same cause I assign the men letting 

 their hair float on their shoulders. Though habituated to 

 brave all the vicissitudes of the weather, I have often been 

 obliged, at night and morning, to wear a kind of shawl about 

 my neck and head, like many of the inhabitants in the hot 

 countries. 



The Russniaks, or Ruthenians, (properly Russians, and 

 sometimes wrongly named Greeks, from the religion they pro- 

 fess) are originally from Red Russia, i. e. Eastern Galicia and 



