TO THE CAPITAL OF THE BANNAT. 297 
the inhabitants of Transylvania^ they may be chap. 
divided into three distinct families ; the Sicult, , , 
a barbarous race, descended from the antient 
Scythians, now inhabiting the districts conti- 
guous to Russia and Moldavia^; the Huxga- 
RiANS, who dwell along the borders of the 
Marisus; and the Saxons upon the south to- 
wards JValachia, and lipon the north towards 
Hungary^. To these must be added the Gipsies. 
Hinc auri, viuiqu^ ferax Bistritia surgit, 
HaRc fulvo splendens cespite terra rubet. 
Mox collis Segsbiirga tegens declivia scandit : 
Et madet irriguis terra propinqua vadis. 
Sunt aliae Megets, Zabesus, fortisque Colosvvar, 
Quarura quseque suA fertilitate placet." 
(3) " In ea [Tranaylvania) sunt Siculi, vulgi) Zekel dicti, genus 
bominura ferox, et bellieosum : inter quos uullus neque nobilis, 
neque rusticus, omnes eodem jure censentur, Heluetioruni instar." 
Joan. Sambuco, Append. Her. Hungar. Borifinii, p. 760. Franco/. 
1581. 
(3) " Histoire et Dfecription du Royaume de Hongrie," liv. iv. 
p. 271. Paris, 1688. See also the Decads of Bonjinius, as edited by 
Sambucus, Franco/, 1581; and the Appendices to that valuable work, 
by Sambuais; also the Florus Ungaricus ; Troubles de Hongrie, Sic. &c. 
There is a curious Memoir, by D'Anville, on the Province of Dacia, 
in the Academic des Inscriptions, torn, xxviu. pp. 444 — 468, (read 
July 24, 1755.) Paris, 1761. It is accompanied by a Map of antient 
Dacia,' as it was formed into a province by Trajan, including 
JValachia, Transylvania, the Bannat 0/ Temeswar, and part of the 
North of Hungnrij, then inhabited by the Jazyges Metanast* In 
the JVest, and the RASTARNiE to the East ; and extending from the 
TiBiscus, to the Tyras, or Dunaster. 
