Hungary and Transylvania, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Hungary and Transylvania, Vol. 2: With Remarks on Their Condition, Social, Political, and Economical After a few day's rest at Pest, we again prepared to encounter the fatigues of travel. A remarkably fine steamboat, the Zriny, which had just been launched, was about to make her first voyage, and we gladly availed ourselves of the opportunity to get down to Moldova. A trial of her powers had been made a few days previously, in an excursion up the river as far as Waitzen, with not less than five hundred persons on board. Count Szechenyi, by directing this little pleasure-trip, to which every one was admitted on paying a zwanziger, (ten-pence, ) had managed to interest a great number of persons in the success of the new boat, no small matter where steam navigation is still a novelty, and where it was met with countless prejudices which are but yet disappearing. I think I know directors of companies, who would have preferred private tickets, and a party of their own friends, by which, of course, all the excluded would have been offended. Which was the wiser system, I leave my readers to decide. We joined the party to Waitzen, and had an opportunity of seeing the first meeting of two steamboats which ever took place on the waters of the Danube. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.