Dr. Brown Navels ' Boole IL 
f'ODody will touch a Pifh that has been dead an Hour 
before it is drefled, j r V? r 
They have a very ftrong ferviceable Breed ot Hor es, 
and befides thefe, they have a wild Sort with Manes that 
reach almoft to the Ground. As for their Wines, they 
are richj ftrong, and full bodied, . much fuperior to 
thofc of Aujiria^ Mot avid and IValachia^ but inferior in 
Flavour to fome of’ the Wines in Hungary. Honey and 
Wax they have in Abundance, and of the rormer they 
make a Mead, which, when it is long kept, is richer and 
ftronger than moft White W^ines. In their Mountains 
are Mines of Gold, Silver, Steel, Iron, Lead, Copper, 
Quickfilver, Salt and Brimftone. 
As for the Inhabitants of this Country, to fpeak of 
them diftindlly would take up a Volume, and that Vo- 
lume might be filled with Matter very inftruflive and 
entertaining. AVhait I have to fay however fliall be 
contained in a few Words; there are four Nations that 
are look’d upon as Inhabitants of anjylvania. The 
firft of thefe are the Saxons.^ who are fuppofed to be 
the Remains of the ancient Dacians ; they have a Lan- 
guage peculiar to themfelves, and are governed accord- 
ing to their own Laws and Cuftoms ; the Capital of 
their Country is Hermanjiadt., which is a confiderable 
Place ; and beftdes this they have fix other Cities, and 
amongft them Cron§tadt and Claufenberg are confidera- 
ble Places. The Inhabitants of Towns are a civilized 
and good Sort of People, but the Plains are occupied 
by the Heydukes, who, in the Days of the Princes of 
^ranfylvania^ were a Sort of Militia, and indeed for 
Strength, Aftivity and Valour, there are very few Na- 
tions that can compare with them. In Time of Peace 
they are Graziers, and live by Breeding, Feeding, and 
Selling of Cattle. 
The Siadi inhabit the Northern Part of the Country 
towards the Carpathian Mountains ; they are fuppofed 
to be Defendants from the Huns, and are as rugged 
and barbarous as the Country they dwell in ; they re- 
femble the Highlanders of Scotland, or rather the old 
Irip, for they value themfelves upon their Nobility, 
and the meaneft Creature in the Country infifts upon it, 
that he is a Gentleman of Birth. They too have feven 
Towns, fuch as they are, are brave to a Degree of Mad- 
nefs, and contend for what they call Liberty, with a 
Fiercenefs that no Authority or Force has hitherto been 
able to tame. 
The Hungarians have five Counties, and their Metro- 
polis is Alba Julia, which is very far from being either 
a large or beautiful Place. Thefe People were much 
favoured by the Ragot/kds, and other Princes pf Tran- 
Jylvania, which encouraged them to make various At- 
tempts upon the Privileges of the Saxons ; nor were 
their Differences Ids frequent with the Siculi, fo that 
no Country was ever more torn or diftraded with civil 
Diffentions than this. Each Nation had its Dyet apart, 
and, which is ftill worfe, the feven Cantons of th&Saxons 
were independant of each other, and their Dyets at Clau- 
Jenburg were in the Nature of States-General. 
There is a fourth Nation in franfylvania, which live 
all over it, but without having Land, Property or Go-' 
vernment *, thefe are the Cingars, in plain Englip, Gip- 
fies *, they had great Privileges from the Princes of Dran- 
fylvania, pitched their Tents where they pleafed, remo- 
ved when they pleafed, and did almoft what they plea- 
fed ; but the Race of thefe Vagabonds is almoft extin- 
guifiied, I mean in Tranfylvania, for there are enough 
of them yet in the Tdurkip Dominions. They are with- 
out Controverfy the moft arrant Scoundrels in the Uni- 
verfe, Atheifts by ProfefRon, Thieves by Trade, and 
have only this fingle Virtue, that they pretend to none/ 
With all this they are a lively, adive and ingenious 
People, and, which is ftill more extraordinary, when 
there is nothing they can fteal within their Reach^ they 
will be very induftrious. Like our Gipfies they are 
very expert Fortune-tellers, and have fueh Knowledge 
in Phyfiognomy, that they never fail to prom ife every 
Man or Woman that applies to them, what he or ftie 
likes beft, and pick their Pockets for their Pains ; -they 
are very fuccefsful as ^acks^ very fkilful as Farriers^ 
are good Blackfmiths, and the moft able Tinkers in the 
World. 
We have now fhown the faireft Side of the Pidure, 
let us turn the Reverfe. As rich and as fine as this 
Country is, as healthy, brave and vigorous its Inhabitants^ 
yeg whether they are the happieft or the wretchedeft 
People upon Earth, is a Queftion one cannot eafily 
refolve. As for Want, that is a Thing unknown, but 
with Regard to fix’d Property, Lands, Farms, and what 
we call Eftates, they are far from being common. As 
for the Saxons, there fupreme Delight is Drunkennefs ; 
fat Bacon is the only Difh they defire, upon which they 
pour as much Wine and Mead as their Stomachs will 
hold, and then fleep fixteen or twenty Hours till they 
are fober. The Heydukes are the merrieft Mortals in 
the World ; they dance with their Swords drawn, and 
their Targets upon their Left Arm, with inconceiv- 
able Agility and the Strokes of their Bucklers, and the 
Clafliing of their Swords, correfpond with the Tune 
that is played ; to which the Gracefulnefs of their Mo- 
tion, and the Sweetnefs and Serenity of their Counte- 
nances, add fuch a furprizing Beauty to the Sight, aa 
renders it extreamly delightful. They have Mufick al- 
ways at their Feafts, drink in Tune, and keep Time 
by clafhing their Muggs. An Excurfion is their foie Plea- 
fure, and Induftry would certainly be very dreadful to 
them, if they had any Conceptions of it. But as they 
neither fee it or hear of it, they fight, feaft, and fleep 
all their Lives long, in fhort, they live without Care, 
and die without Thought. 
But if a good Government could be eftabliftied in 
this Country, and the People brought under due Regu- 
lations, they might certainly become both rich and 
powerful, as it is not a fifth Part of their Land that is 
cultivated, nor one Tenth of their Mines wrought. 
Some Cloth they make, but it is coarfe, and only fic 
for their own Ufe, but one may guefs what Induftry 
would do in this Part of the World, by what one Ba- 
ron LePey in the Emperor’s Service actually did ; he em- 
ployed twenty of his Soldiers as Drovers, and they at 
proper Seafons of the Year carried Cattle to Vienna, by 
which in five Summers he acquired One hundred thou- 
fand Florins', and having veiled his Stock in proper 
Commodities fent it to Venice, whither he repaired at 
the next Carnival, where he found his Capital doubled, 
with which he bought a noble Lordfhip in Bohemia^ 
and being naturally a Man of CEconomy, and a good 
Mailer, made his Vaflals happy, and lived himfelf with 
all the Magnificence of a Prince. 
But notwithftanding all this, the Towns in TranfyV 
vania are, generally fpeaking, mean ; the common Peo- 
ple live in Hutts ; their Roads are bad at all Times, 
in wet Weather impalTable ; the People fave nothing, 
and will rather abandon their Homes than pay Taxes ; 
in Ihort, they are proud of a Plenty which they abufe, 
and of a kind of Liberty, which is worfe than any 
Sort of Subjeftion. They have all Sorts of Religions 
amongft them without Morality, and, in the_ Midft of 
the moft valuable and faleable Commodities in the 
World, have few Manufadlures, and little or no Trade. 
In fhort, they are Barbarians that think themfelves the 
happieft People in the World, and might be really 
fo, if they would become civilized. 
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