BANAT FRONTIER.
The sandy surface of that part of the Banat which lies between the Danube and the Lower Nera, is very little elevated above the level of those rivers, by which, when they are swollen, it is in a great measure inundated. In the south-east corner of the German Banat regiment, the loose sand is drifted into moving hills. It has not unfrequently buried fields and houses, and occasioned the gradual desertion of whole villages; but by judicious plantations it is now confined within narrower limits. One of the most fertile of tracts, the granary of the frontiers, is thus enclosed between dry sand and morasses. A motley mixture of settlers, Germans, Hungarians, Slavonians of various tribes, and Walachians, live together in a small district of the German Banat regiment, and mostly retain the language, costume, manners and way of life of their respective ancestors.