Roumania : the border land of the Christian and the Turk : comprising adventures of travel in eastern Europe and western Asia / by James O. Noyes.

  • Noyes, James Oscar, 1829-1872.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Roumania : the border land of the Christian and the Turk : comprising adventures of travel in eastern Europe and western Asia / by James O. Noyes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in such a place were a foretaste of those in the pure Heaven above. In the months of summer, the traveller frequently meets with bands of pilgrims among the Austrian Alps. Dressed in the most primitive and grotesque costumes and headed by ]3riests carrying banners or the cross, they wind their way slowly amid the loneliest solitudes, chanting their hymns in a solemn and earnest manner, and uniting, in the grand temple of the God of l^ature, their simple melody with the sweet voices of the trees, the rocks, and the running brooks. The region below Gran becomes picturesque in the extreme. The arms of the Danube unite in a single stream, and the vine-clad hills rise into porphyry moun- tains, crowned here and there with noble ruins. Yisegrad, celebrated even in the time of the Ro- mans, and once so magnificent that a Papal Envoy termed it a paradise on earth, now contains scarcely an inhabitant. The castle by the river-side is in a tolerable state of preservation, while that which crown- ed the mountain in the rear is in ruins. The latter is said to have contained three hundred and fifty cham- bers, and the two were connected by a subterranean passage. Charles Robert, after his marriage with the Polish princess, Elizabeth, in 131T, chose for his royal residence the fortress of Yisegrad, which soon became one of the most splendid courts in Europe. He ex- pended upon it all the marvels which French art and