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gents, with somewhat of a military air, appears also ungra- 

 cious and forbidding, so that I felt no inclination to regret his 

 memory. The mantle of this last is preserved in the church 

 among the sacerdoial ornaments. 



The aluniferous rocks that formed a principal object of my 

 visit to this part of Hungary, are not at Munkacs, but in the 

 country of Bereghz Sasz, where they are found in abundance. 

 There is only one quarry of alum works at Munkacs, where 

 M. Dercseny has introduced the process in use at Tolfa. The 

 minerals are so intermingled, that an average product is ob- 

 tained in the rate of about twelve for a hundred. They first 

 go through an operation by fire, and then are removed to a 

 sort of threshing floor, where they are constantly watered to 

 reduce them to a paste, and after another operation by hot 

 Avater, and evaporation, they are deposited in tubs to let the 

 alum crystallise. , . IB . j 



The weather continued unfavourable, but I was under the 

 necessity of quitting Munkacs. The Abbfe Este then returned 

 to Unghvar, and 1 took the direction for Bereghzasz. In the 

 afternoon I reached Bereghzasz, and presented my letters to 

 the baron Pereny. Among the adjacent hills I observed a 

 great number of vineyards that produced a pretty good wine$ 

 the exposure or situation being favourable. bsO'r 



The baron Pereny had sent for the director of the alum 

 works at Deda, to accompany rne to Musaj, and we set out 

 next morning. At the village we found some alum works, 

 and M. Wobry, the director, ordered a young man to attend 

 me in my visit. Quarries of mill stones were formerly worked 

 here, and are still occasionally, though considered as inferior 

 to those of Saros Patak, and Hlinik, but the aluniferous rocks, 

 discovered by M. Dercseny, have greatly enhanced the import- 

 ance of this whole tract. 



Petrified wood is found here, in the midst of the aluuiferous 

 rock. Fragments are found partly in a siliceous state, and 

 partly in the state of compact alunite. M. Dercseny shewed 

 me some beautiful specimens, and presented me with some, 

 the characters of which are strongly marked^ 



A question here arises, whether the facts observed at Mujac 

 are analogous, in their circumstances, to those at aluniferous 

 depots in other parts of the globe ? Probabilities may be 

 founded on the apparent identity of the products, and we may 

 adopt one general remark, that when there is an exact con- 

 formity between rocks, in a pretty considerable number of 

 their samples, it is rare that the same does not exist also in 

 the geological relations. But if we compare the products of 

 the mountains of Musaj, with those collected at Tolfa, at 



