Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . temptations of drunkenness in their way. Bishops and noblesare joint proprietors of all the inns, and the greater the drunk-enness of the peasantry, the larger are the returns to the lords ofthe soil. This picture is far from being overcharged. I mayappeal with confidence to every traveller in Poland to bear truthto its lamentable veracity. The Moldavian territory commences at Zoring, a hamlet of afew houses, in which are both Austrian and Moldavian post-houses, and some Greek and Austrian commissaries to examineand counters
Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . temptations of drunkenness in their way. Bishops and noblesare joint proprietors of all the inns, and the greater the drunk-enness of the peasantry, the larger are the returns to the lords ofthe soil. This picture is far from being overcharged. I mayappeal with confidence to every traveller in Poland to bear truthto its lamentable veracity. The Moldavian territory commences at Zoring, a hamlet of afew houses, in which are both Austrian and Moldavian post-houses, and some Greek and Austrian commissaries to examineand countersign passports. The country around shows theremains of extensive oak forests, almost extirpated by the firesof wandering Tartars and Chinganies, who, in their constantmigrations, apply their embers to the hollows of the largesttrees, thereby destroying the bark, and occasioning the trees towither and fall. We found a troop of these gypsies at Zoring:their waggons are singularly constructed, and put togethersometimes with wooden pins only, without the intervention of.
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