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After returning from the visit to my military friends at Rosenau, I was told I must not omit to make some excursions to the celebrated mineral watering-places of Transylvania. The chief baths in this locality are Elopatak and Tusnad. The first named is four hours' drive from Kronstadt.
After finally leaving Tusnad, I rode on to Csik Szent Marton, where, as there was no inn, I had to present myself at the best house in the place and crave their hospitality. My request was taken as a matter of course, and they received me with the greatest kindness; in fact it was with great difficulty that I could get away the next day.
I noticed many mineral springs by the roadside; one could distinguish them by the deposit of oxide of iron on the stones near by. When I got back to Büksad, I found the bailiff waiting to tell me that Count M and Baron A desired their compliments, and would be pleased to see me at Tusnad, if I would go over there.
I don't know whether the Hungarian Count drew the same conclusion in my case, but I could see he was very much amused; I don't think any other people understand the Englishman's love of adventure. The baths of Tusnad The state of affairs before 1848 Inequality of taxation Reform The existing land laws Communal property Complete registration of titles to estates Question of entail.
I mixed exclusively in Hungarian society during my stay at the baths of Tusnad. With Baron and Herr von I talked politics by the hour. The Hungarians have the natural gift of eloquence. They pour forth their words like the waters of a mill-race, no matter in what language. My principal companion at Tusnad spoke French.
I have given this passage from Mr Judd's paper because there exists a good deal of misapprehension amongst English travellers as to what has really been done with regard to the geological survey of Austro-Hungary. A ride through Szeklerland Warnings about robbers Büksad A look at the sulphur deposits on Mount Büdos A lonely lake An invitation to Tusnad.
The waters contain a great deal of protoxide of iron, stronger even than those of Schwalbach, which they resemble. Tusnad, I was told, is pleasantly situated on the river Aluta, an excellent stream for fishing. The post goes daily in eight hours from Kronstadt. The season is very short, being over in August. Tusnad is said to contain one hundred springs of different kinds of water.
The latter substance seems to be the result of a kind of sublimation which took place at the moment of the formation of the trachyte.... Distinct craters are only seen at the southern extremity of the chain. One of the finest observed by Dr Boné was to the south of Tusnad. It was of great size and well characterised, surrounded by pretty steep and lofty hills composed of trachyte.
I rode over to Tusnad the following day, and found it, as I had been led to expect, a very picturesque little place, a number of Swiss cottages dropped down in the clearing of the forest, with a good "restauration," built by Count M himself. When I was there the season was over; but I am told that it is full of fashionables in June and July, and that the waters have an increasing reputation.
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