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In these holes strong trunks of trees were fastened; these supported the planks of which the road is said to have been formed. At eleven in the forenoon we reached Alt-Orsova, the last Austrian town on the military frontier of Banata or Wallachia. We were obliged to remain here for half a day. The town has rather a pretty effect, being composed mostly of new houses.
The river is hemmed in on either side by mountains, until it spreads itself forth free and unrestrained, in the neighbourhood of Pancsova, to a breadth of 800 fathoms. Pancsova, on the left bank of the Danube, in the territory of Banata, is a military station.
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