"Yesterday I went over to the Buda side, where twenty houses have been entirely washed away. Nearly the whole of the town is flooded, and every street converted into a river five or six feet in depth. It is estimated that more than two hundred people have been drowned.... On Sunday morning I saw the Danube bearing swiftly away the terrible wreckage of the storm. There were large articles of furniture, the bodies of men, women, and children, together with horses and cows, all floating on the whirling waters.... It rained a waterspout for nearly five hours, and in consequence the small valleys leading down from the mountain were in some places thirty feet deep, for a time, in rushing water.... The tramways in some places are destroyed; the mountain railway wrecked; the vineyards on the hillside simply ruined.... You will scarcely credit me when I tell you that a house situated at the bottom of the valley and near the railway station was literally battered in by a drift of hailstones. The doors and windows were burst in before the inmates could escape, and they were actually buried alive in ice. When I saw the house twenty-two hours afterwards it was still four feet deep in hailstones, though they had been clearing them away with spades. Just as I got there they recovered the body of a poor woman who had perished. From this spot, and for about a mile up the valley, no less than fifty-seven bodies were found."
[4] Letters and Works, edited by Lord Wharncliffe, 1837, p. 351, 359.
[5] The robbers were subsequently taken and executed.
[6] Hungary and Transylvania, 1839.
[7] 'Geographical Aspect of the Eastern Question,' Fortnightly Review, January 1877.
[8] Transylvania: its Products and People.
[9] A Short Trip in Hungary and Transylvania.
[10] 'Report on the Agriculture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,' Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, vol. x. Part xi. No. xx.
[11] The Ibis, vol. v., 1875. The Birds of Transylvania. By Messrs. Danford and Brown.
[12] Martin Diosy, Esq.