Borders of 
fVulachia. 
280 FROM BUKOREST, 
stationed as a sentinel, at a hut by the way- 
side, marks the limit of the principality : a 
small torrent, flowing through a chasm between 
the mountains, and thence falling into the 
Alutrt, is the precise boundary between this 
part of Walachia and Transylvania. The 
welcome sight of the arms of the Emperor of 
Germany, painted on a board, and placed upon 
the side of a mountain above this torrent, an- 
nounced the agreeable intelligence to us, that, 
by passing a little bridge which appeared before 
us, we should quit the Otloman Empire. Upon 
the Trail SI] If ani an side of the same torrent, 
another peasant, standing before another hut, is 
also stationed as a sentinel. After crossing this 
torrent, we began to climb a steep and difficult 
ascent, by a most dangerous road ; consisting, 
in parts of it, of a mere shelf of planks, really 
hanging over a stupendous precipice, beneath 
AMia. whicli rolled the rapid waters of the Aliila. This 
river is accurately described by Piolemy, as 
dividing Dacia from the J\^o;7A ' : it has pre- 
served its antient name unaltered, notwith- 
standing the positive assertions both of Cluverius 
rriY AAKIAN'. Claud. Plolem. Geog. lib. iii. cap. 8. p. 76. ed. Montun. 
Franco/, 1G05. 
