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branches quite over the road. The high banks chap. 
of the river were diversified by rich beds of < -y ■ / 
many-coh)ured flowers, yielding the most re- 
freshing odours ; and all the air resounded with 
the singing of birds. In the first part of the 
journey, however, as far as 'Lesnek, the roads 
were as bad as when Borns carriage was 
dragged over them by eight oxen besides the 
four horses of his vehicle' ; but afterwards, 
near Dobra, they became better. At Dohra we 
found a crowded fair, and Gipsies begging in the 
midst of the uproar. A change in the manner 
of building houses seemed to indicate a dif- 
ferent tribe of inhabitants ; the dwellings being 
constructed as among the nations inhabiting 
the shores of the Baltic ; that is to say, with 
whole trunks of trees piled horizontally one 
above another. From Dobra we were accom- 
panied by two hussars as guards, owing to the 
robbers who infest the frontier of the Bannat of 
Temesivar. Our first stage from Dobra was to 
Czoczed. Between this place and Kossova, the Kowla. 
next station, we crossed a high ridge of moun- 
tains separating Transylvania from the Bannat ^"jj'g"" 
of Hungary : a small church upon the summit Bannat. 
(2) See " Travels through the Bannaty" p. 94. Land. J 777. 
