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Hungary is a country, of which our knowledge, from the very little intercourse maintained with it, is exceedingly imperfect. The duties of a recent traveller, M. Beudant, led him to explore and survey that remote unvisited region, with the design of collecting, ascertaining, and adopting, on a systematic principle, all such new, but scattered information, as was to be found in a large sphere of remark and enquiry, upon the subject of geology. But while paying due attention to the principal and avowed object, he deemed it of importance to accomplish another by it, that of observing and describing what the means given, and the opportunities afforded, would enable him to learn, during his short stay, respecting the customs and manners, the taste, habits, and character, of the inhabitants, the chief part of which has been carefully preserved in the following translation.