UQ BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the landing of a boat-load of passengers all fresh from the 

 capital. 



My window looked out over the Danube and the pretty town 

 of Biida just across the bridge, and the first excursion I took 

 was over that same bridge and through a deep tunnel on the 

 other side into the heart of the town, where 1 attended church. 

 Buda is a town of thirty-five or forty thousand inhabitants, and 

 Pesth of seventy-five or eighty thousand. Above the former 

 city rises the Blocksberg, an elevated fortified peak which com- 

 mands a fine view of both cities and of a broad landscape. 

 Pesth is rather low and flat, but its streets are wide and clean, 

 its shops, many of them, very fine, and attractive. It has two 

 theatres which appear to be well patronized and a council house 

 from whose lofty, square tower there is a fine view of the whole 

 surrounding country. Tliere is a curious church called the 

 Hauptfarrkirche, which I attended. The priest was in tlie 

 midst of an animated address, in the Hungarian language, 

 over a beautiful young lady who was kneeling before him sur- 

 rounded by a crowd standing about in respectful silence. As 

 I could not understand a word of what he was saying, I just 

 made " note on't," as Captain Cuttle would say, and walked 

 out. 



There is a peculiarity here which is quite common in 

 continental, one might almost say, in European cities. It 

 is the apparently total want of observance of the Sabbath. 

 The shops are open and every thing appears to go on as usual, 

 except that the people are perhaps a little better dressed than on 

 other days. I saw on a beautiful Sunday morning, in Pesth, as 

 many as two thousand market women, and many men with wares 

 of various kinds for sale. Tiiere every thing, I could almost say, 

 that the imagination could picture as salable, was offered and 

 sold. Some had fruits, flowers, vegetables, meats, and other 

 eatables ; some had old clothes, old iron, tin, brass, cheap 

 jewelry, old rags, shoes, gloves, hats, and otliers, a thousand 

 other varieties. This was upon one long, broad street, and it 

 was full of them, middle, sides, and both ends for a long 

 distance. This I su[)})0sed sujfTicicnt to supply a city of eighty 

 thousand inhabitants with every thing they could want to eat, 

 drink, wear, or use in any other way, but much to my sur})rise 

 in passing on to another broad street by the river, I came across. 



