96 M. Beudanfs Travels in Hungary. 



One general remark maybe made here, that the salt-springs 

 and saliferotts depots are constantly found conterminal with 

 (i. e. more less bordering on) sands, whether of a deep solid 

 mass or otherwise, mixed with argilous couches. This remark 

 will apply to iEastern Galicia and the Buckawine, taking in the 

 depots of Dobroniel, Drohobicz, Lisovice, Delatyn, Kossow, 

 Solka, &c. stretching from NW. to SE. and passing on to Boch- 

 nia and Villiczka. A similar remark may be made, as applicable, 

 in some measure, to the numerous iron mines and works at 

 Smolna, Grow, Skole, Myzun, Weldzicz, Rotzniatow, &c. as 

 also in the Buckawine, and on the frontiers of Moldavia, these 

 are found between the couches of argilous sand and the free- 

 stone with calcareous cement. To which may be added, that 

 it is especially in the districts occupied by this free-stone and 

 argile, that all the salt-springs and saliferous depots, at the 

 northern foot of the Carpathians, from Villiczka and Brochnia 

 to Portestye in the Buckawine, are found. And further, these 

 saliferous depots differ materially from those in all other coun- 

 tries, as containing a considerable quantity of organic remains. 

 These may be here recapitulated, as consisting generally of 

 bivalve shells, that appear to belong to the telline genus, of small 

 microscopical, multilocular shells, of the renalite, rotalite, or 

 discorbite genera; and lastly, of lignites, in larger or smaller 

 pieces, wherein are lodged trunks and branches of trees, inter- 

 mingled with fruits and leaves. 



CHAPTER XII. 



MOUNTAINS BETWEEN EPERIES AND TOKAI, OPALS, &C. 



My arrival at Eperies could not repair my disasters, as I had 

 no tubes for the barometer in the baggage I had forwarded 

 thither, and unluckily, though I ranged about the town, I could 

 not find one barometmacher in it. The bad weather, too, pre- 

 rented my geological perambulations in the mountains, and M. 

 Sennovitz, \he only naturalist I wished to see, being absent, 

 I spent my time in promenading the town with my umbrella. 

 Judging of it, under such circumstances, Eperies appeared to 

 me very large, well built, and, what is not common in Hungary, 

 the streets are decently paved, and have rather a neat appear- 

 ance. The inhabitants may be rated at from 7 to 8000, con- 

 sisting of Germans, Sclavonians, and Hungarians. The first 

 are by far the most numerous, and the Hungarians are but few 



