230 FROM THE PAvSSAGE OF MOUNT H^MUS/ 
/ Condition of the Hospodar — State of the Peasantry—* 
Language of Walachia — Religion — Epulee Ferales — 
Approach to Bukorest — Reception of the Anibassador — 
Public Entry — English Consul — Audience of the 
Hospodar — Statistics — Population — Commerce — J\^e- 
tropolitan Monastery — Schools — Magdalen Hospital — 
Ceremony of the Resurrection — Triple Consulate — 
Gipsies. 
A.S we were to remain at Shumla until the 
thirteenth, we sent forward an express message 
to Bukorest, to our friend Mr. Summer er, then 
residing as agent for the British nation at 
Bukorest (with whom we had contracted an 
intimacy at Ptra), requesting that he would 
send a carriage and horses to meet us, after 
our passage of the Danube, at Rustchuk. The 
Ambassador also ordered carriages for all the 
principal persons of his suite to be brought 
to the same place ; and wrote to the Prince 
of JValacliia, announcing his approach. We 
thought we had now quitted altogether the 
land of classical antiquities ; but to our sur- 
prise, we obtained in this place three Greek 
MetUi,. medals: we found them upon the evening of 
our arrival, in the hands of a silversmith ; and 
if the shops had not been shut the next day, 
owing to the festival of the Courhan Bairam, 
we had reason to believe that we might have 
