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their horns. The horses used for posting are chap. 
often excellent ; but the manafjement of the ■ 
post is ill regulated, and, of course, badly eon- 
ducted. We observed at Felegyhaza a particu- 
lar breed of hogs, very long in the back, and of 
great size, of a sandy colour. Ketschemet is a 
considerable town : it contains sixty-five thou- 
sand inhabitants. It would be absurd to say 
that all the women of this country are scolds, 
because the few that we saw were so ; but it is 
a fact, that we hardly entered into any 
dwelling without finding a scolding housewife. 
The mistress of the inn at Ketschemet made 
every part of it resound with her vociferations : 
and we were considerably amused by the cir- 
cumstance, as a long time had elapsed since we 
had been in a country where any thing like 
authority might be said to reside in the female 
part of the community. The great Plain, lying 
between the Theyss and the Danube, in which 
Ketschemet is situate, was that which the Jazyges jazi/ges, 
Metanastce formerly inhabited : it is two hun- 
dred and fifty miles in length, and almost an 
equal number in breadth ; and the boorish race 
now tenanting this district are singularly dis- 
tinguished, in their manners and customs, from 
the inhabitants of the rest of Hungary. In the 
sandy heath between this place and Pest were 
