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FROM THE PASSAGE OF MOUNT H^MUS, 
CHAP, productive, may be inferred from the following' 
- circumstance. Trajan having sent hither a 
colony of thirty thousand men to cultivate the 
land, the Romans were enabled to obtain sup- 
plies from it, for the use of their army, during 
the war with the Scythians and Sarmatians. It 
is true that both JValachia and Moldavia were 
then comprised within the limits of a single 
division of Dacia. There are some salt mines y 
as there were formerly ' ; whence the Hospodar 
of JValachia derives a principal part of his 
revenue ; which is reckoned below par if it do 
not amount annually to twelve millions of 
piastres*. Yet a more wretched state of slavery 
Condition cau hardly be imagined than the condition of a 
Huipodar. Hospodar of Walachia. Not only is this Prince 
obliged to degrade himself by the most abject 
submission towards the Grand Signior, (who, for 
the slightest misconception, or offence taken, 
deprives him at once of power, property, and 
Jife,) but he is moreover compelled to cringe to 
all the creatures about the Court, and especially 
to the Greek Princes, whose avarice he is forced 
(l) " .Sa/i/ice auteni hs apud Tarda tn saut, ubi s^l effuilitur, Zn- 
mosio testante Atialect. cap. 9.'' Ceilur. Geog. Jntiq. hb. ii. turn. 1. 
f. 8. />. 599. Lips. 1701. 
{H) Eig^hty thousand pounds sterling ; reckoning fifteen piaitrcs tu 
tiitr pvuudj ■&•> the pur of e\cltaugc. 
