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towards the rest of Europe ; which caused the chap. 
IV. 
country to be denommated, by Christian nations, > 
the shield and impregnable bulwark of Chris- 
tianity'. 
Saturday, May 8. — We found the roads so 
much improved, that we diminished the number 
of our horses ; hiring only four for our carriage, 
and three to convey the baggage. All the 
country between Segedin and Ketschemet, a dis- 
tance of thirty-six English miles, is marshy. 
It improves a little towards Ketschemet, because 
it is more cultivated ; but the rest resembles 
Kuban Tahtary, being full of stagnant pools, 
where nothing is heard but the croaking of 
toads. The rye was beginning to be in ear. 
Two posts before arriving at Ketschemet, is a 
place called Felegyhaza : it seemed like a 
newly-built town, or large village, full of hand- 
some structures, but erected in a straggling 
manner, like the houses in Moscow ; and after 
a plan more resembling that of a camp, than of 
a fixed place of residence. There are some 
public edifices at Felegyhaza ; the post-house 
(3) " Velut Dei Opt. Max. hominumque consensu et arbitrio, 
Hungaria facta est clypeus et arx Christianitatis iuexpugnabilis." 
Lansio, Orat. po Hungarid, p. 588. 
