[3] Reprinted from a publication of the Transylvanian Carpathian Society.
[4] The Hungarian name of is Nagy-Szeben, and its Roumanian appellation Sibiiu.
[5] This, however, may be doubted, as I do not believe that, under any circumstances, a natural amalgamation between Germans and Magyars could ever have come about. There is a too deeply inrooted dislike between the two races.
“There is space in the smallest hut
To contain a happy, loving couple.”
[7] This abuse, however, is entirely confined to the villages, the towns showing a far more favorable rate of increase among the Saxon population.
[8] The assertion that the Transylvanian Saxons—taken as a body—show a yearly decrease is, however, incorrect, as has been conclusively proved by Dr. Oskar von Meltzl, in his recent interesting work, “Statistik der Sächsischen Landbevölkerung in Siebenbürgen.” By the author’s own acknowledgment, however, the increase within the last thirty-two years has been but insignificant; while of 227 Saxon communities established in the country 92 have diminished in number between the years 1851-1883 to the extent of nearly 11 per cent.
[9] Dr. Fronius.
[10] New-year’s gift from the honorable brotherhood.