54 M. BeudanCs Travels in Hungary. 



Srhlnqshpnr hei S ht of the larom eter,"J 719 mill, 

 at noon g> temperature, \ 19 gr. 



fair weather. J 



The village height of the barometer,"i 738 mill, 

 at 10 o'clock' temperature, > 19 gr. 



fair weather. -> 



Observatorv hei S ht of the barometer O 742 mill. 



atBudaT temperature of the air, I 19gr. 5 



2o ? clock do. of the mercury, ? 15 g, 



flying clouds. ' 



The new observatory of Buda was the point of comparison 

 which 1 assumed for all the barometrical observations I made 

 in Hungary. 



At the village of Aranios Marot, I found an auriferous lead 

 mine, and along the road I was now travelling, met with large 

 blocks of a porphyritic stone, to which M. Haiiy has given the 

 name of trachyte. These must have descended, washed away 

 by some great flood, from the hills to the north-east. At the 

 village of Szent Benedek, (St. Benedict) which is adjoining to 

 those hills, I observed blocks of trachytes exactly similar to 

 those in the walls of the castle of Gimes. On the summit of 

 one is a monastery, which has been ceded to the chapter of 

 Gran, and overlooks a pretty good landscape, though the fea- 

 tures of the country are harsh and severe. At the foot of it 

 runs the river of Gran. The whole district is a champaign, 

 covered with sand and vegetable earth, and the few neighbour- 

 ing hills are very low and round. Little is to be seen all the 

 way to Konigsberg. 



This little town, called by the Hungarians Uj Banya,* would 

 scarcely deserve the name of a village in France. The only 

 object worth noticing, is the town-house, built, in 1382, by 

 queen Mary, for her own residence ; in front of it is an inn, 

 where a traveller may find tolerable accommodations. The 

 houses of this royal free city are scattered up and down, with- 

 out order or neatness, and the environs have a wild appear- 

 ance, except an opening that commands a valley, which here 

 produces an agreeable feeling from the effect of contrast. 

 Lofty mountains, crowned with thick forests, the little scattered 

 dwellings of the miners interspersed among the trees, the 

 roofs of the engines and buildings for the machinery, a church 

 on a little eminence, these look well at a little distance, but 

 on approaching them, from the heaps of rubbish thrown out 

 by the miners, the illusion vanishes. 



* The name of Banya often occurs in Hungary; it signifies a mine. Uj is au 

 adjective, meaning new ; Uj Banya, the new mine. 



