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chamber; and within the same hour part of it chap. 
IV. 
was served for our dinner. In this country, • 
as in Flanders, the traveller has no sooner quitted 
one place of relay, than he sees the church 
belonging to the next, during his whole route. 
These straight roads in the Bcmnat are excellent, 
and the post-horses are generally good. The 
prospect everywhere exhibits immense pastures, Aspect of 
. , , , . , the Coun- 
with herds grazmg; cows, sheep, and horses; try. 
or wide fields, without inclosures, covered with 
corn. Various aquatic fowls frequent the plains; 
among which we saw storks with red legs and 
bills. The Hungarian dress, commonly called 
Hessian in England, consisting of pantaloons, 
with military half-boots to which spurs are 
fastened, is so universal, that it is worn both by 
boys and men. The remains of small Roman 
tumuli, used as marks of distance along the old 
Roman roads, are as common here as in Turkey. 
At Komlos we were amused by seeing a party 
of JValachians, in a group, seated on the ground, 
playing with cards, noisy and quarrelsome ; 
offering, together with their language, strong 
proofs of their resemblance to Italians, who are 
constantly thus occupied in all the principal 
towns of Italy. A disposition for gaming 
cannot well be considered as a national 
characteristic ; because it is found in every 
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