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HUNGARY AND IT'S RESOURCES.

HUNGARY AND IT'S RESOURCES.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American has furnished that pa
per with an interesting sketch of Uunga-
ry, from which VIC make the following cx-
tracts. The writer states that he has dc
rived his data frome some of the best
books on which that country is treated,
and that the statistics of population, pro-
pcrty &c, may be relied on, having been
collected from 1886 to 1880, by John
Macgregor, one of the secretaries of the
London Board of Trade:
The Hungary of the present day forms
part of the Austrian dominions, being
bounded on the west by part of Ger
many, north by Gallicia-from which it
is separated by the Carpathcan Mountains
east by Pennsylvania and Wallachia,
and south by Turkey, Sclavonia and Gro
alta. It's present territorial extent 3d.
500 square miles. Thus i, is nearly twice
as large as the State of New York.
1t was formerly known as Upper and
Lower Hungary, but this division has
been superseded, and it is now separated
into the following six circles, viz: Circle
this side the Danube, circle beyond the
Danube, circle this side the Thcvss, circle
beyond the Thcyss, province of Sclavonia,
province of Croatia. These circles are di-
vided into counties, of which there arc 13
in the first circle, and IL in each of the
others. The principal rivers are the Dan
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the White Korcsch, the Izanos, the
Theyss, the Waag, and the Tcmcs.
1t contains SO large towns, ISL market
towns, IL ,7O6 villages, ,3O7,172 houses,
2,885,500 families, 5,917202 males, g.
10000 females. Total population 49,
006,202. OF these about 6,5OO,OO0 arc
Roman Catholics, and about 1000, 900 of
the greek Church, about 100000 Lu-
thcrans, 100000 Calvinists, 25o,O0
Jews, and its regular army is $4,000
mon.
There are about 100000 of English
acres of arabic land, $3.50, 900 vineyards,
100000 gardens, 4,950,O00 pastures,
about 100000 English acres OF wood
lands--wholc number of acres being
about 340.000,0O0 100000 head of
horned cattle, $500 horses, 5000, 900
sheep.
Buda is the capital, stands on the right
bank of the Danube, and has $4,000 in
habitunts. TWAS once the residence of
the Kings of Hungary, say till 1926, when
it was taken by the Turks For 100
years it was contested between them and
the Christians, and it was finally surrcr,
dercd to the latter in 1886. In 1910, GOO
houses were destroyed by fire, but they
have been replaced with improved build
ings.
Immediately opposite Buda, on the east
side of the Danube, is Pesth, which is the
largest city Of Hungary it is well built,
containing many elegant public buildings
and mansions Of the Hungarian nobility
Its University is one of the most richly
endowed OH the continent Of Europe, and
this city of Pesth contains above 10000
inhabitants 1t is about 1870 miles south
cast of Vienna.
Throughout Hungary the Sclayonian
population are the most Gunierolls, and
perform the most sefsile kinds Of labor
The Magyarsv-the original Hungarians
though generally illitefates sare d spirit
cd and intelligent race, fond OF active en-
ploymcnts and military life avoiding,
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