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296 MINERALOGICAL REMARKS. In this town there is another quarry of the white indurated clay, which is here likewife ufed for building ; it is nat cellular, like that of Tokay, but almoft as foft as chalk ; carefully examined, and with a lens, fome fine black mica may be perceived. My hoft cultivates the Yatis tinGoria for making indigo. I flayed here two or three days in hopes of his return, but I was altogether deprived of the advantages of his acquaintance. Where civilization is backward, there the government is obliged to extend its attention to things which at another period it leaves ta the care of the public. In Hungary, as in fome other countries, the health of the public is an obje& of care of government ; and in each county there is a phyfician appointed and paid by it, who has furgeons under him. In the fmaller towns the phyfician’s falary is forty pounds a year, and the furgeon’s twenty, befides other advantages, and their practice. At Uihelly the Sclavonian language begins to be general. July sth, I fet out for Telkobanya; the vineyards foon difappeared, and the fides of the hills were then covered with underwood inftead of vines. The vallies between the hills were part corn, part pafture land. The road as far as Balhafy is frightfully bad. Here I changed horfes and ate fome eggs, the only thing the village afforded. The peafants were met at the judge’s cottage to adjuft fome differences concerning the extent of a field or farm. I have often 44
