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Contents
CHAP. I.
Vienna - its Learned Institutions - Public Libraries - Cabinet of Medals - Imperial and other valuable Collections of Minerals and Natural Curiosities - the Markets - Public Amusements - Imperial Botanic Garden, and Menagerie
CHAP. II.
From Vienna to OEdinburgh - Coal Mine - Count Szechyny - Prince Esterhazy - Travelling in Hungary - Count Festitich - Towns of Raab - Dotis - Komorn
CHAP. III.
Gran, its Hot Springs, Frogs, Epsom Water - Nature of the Rocks - Vissegrade - Bogdon - St. Andrée.
CHAP. IV.
Bude - Royal Palace - Caserns - Hospitals - University - Library - Theatres - Combat des Animaux - Coffee-houses - Hot Baths - Antiquities - Fair - Ketchkemet Heath - Field of Raekosch - Supposed Bastile, &c.
CHAP. IV.*
National Dislike to the Austrians - Constitution of the Kingdom - State of the Nobles, Citizens, and Peasants - The Urbarium - State of the Clergy - Innovations of Joseph II. - Antient Order restored - Transactions of the Diet of 1790 - and, State of the Protestants
CHAP. V.
Population and Inhabitants - Revenue - Commerce - and Military Force
CHAP. VI.
From Bude to Gyongyes - Matra Mountains and their Fossils - Alum Works - Pseudo-volcanic Crater - Curious Pitch Stone - Volcanic Tufa
CHAP. VII.
Pëlcho-Tarkan - Bishop of Erlau - Hungarian Inns - University
CHAP. VIII.
Salt-petre Manufactories - Bishop of Erlau's Stud and Dairy - Salt Magazine - Fured - Great Puszta - Strange Accident
CHAP. IX.
Debretzin - University - Natron - Soap - Bread - Guba - Saltpetre Manufactory - Horned Cattle - Court of Justice
CHAP. X.
Grofs Wardein - County Meeting - Hot Baths - Natron - Ziguiners, etc.
CHAP. XI.
Tokay - Its Vineyards and Wine - Soil - Lithology - and Salt Magazine
CHAP. XII.
Account of Fossils - and Mineralogical Remarks
CHAP. XIII.
Caschau - Baths of Rank - Opal Mines - Remarkable Caverns, etc.
CHAP. XIV.
Rosenau - Schmölnitz and its Mines - Iglo - Leutchau, and Misfortune there - County-meeting - Representations against diminishing the Liberty of the Press, etc.
CHAP. XV.
Excursions in the Alps
CHAP. XVI.
Kesmark to Vasetz - The Krivan Mountain
CHAP. XVII.
Journey to Wieliczka - The Salt Mines - Cracow - and Return to Pribilini
CHAP. XVIII.
Cavern of Demanovo - Neusohln and the Mines of Herren Grund - Biographical Sketch of Baron Born - Schemnitz, Kremnitz, and Konigsberg, and their Mines
CHAP. XIX.
Monastery of St. Benedict - Neitra - Tyrnau - Presburg - Coaches an Hungarian Invention
APPENDIX.
Entomologia
Regnum Vegetabile
Preface
Though so many Tours have appeared of late, Hungary has never been
the subject of one of them; it is nevertheless a country, though so
circumstanced as to be of little political importance to Britain, worthy
of our attention: its constitution, its people, and their manners, and its
natural productions, are all remarkable.
I know that the present work, the corrected notes of a five months' Tour,
does not supply this deficiency; on the contrary, I am conscious that on
some very important matters I have only slightly touched; yet even this
small pittance of information on a country so little known, and yet
in itself so highly interesting, will, I hope, be thought not too
insignificant to be laid before the public. Had I drawn up this Tour in
Hungary, where I could easily have obtained information when my own notes
were too short or obscure, a far more interesting work would probably now
have appeared; but in the turbulent times that have succeeded, it has been
very difficult to obtain any information through correspondents. An absence
likewise of eight years from Britain will, I hope, be received as an excuse
for some inaccuracies of language.
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