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At midday we dined with Count Seau, and by two a clock taking leave of the governor, we set forward in a calash for Enyed[122], two Hungarian miles distant from hence, where we arrived before seven, the road lying all the way near the banks of the Maurusius.
May xxii.
We take a calash this morning, and proceed about an hour from Enyed to meet his Excellency, at the place where he crossed the Maurusius by flat boats; which done, we wait on him back to Enyed, and there arrive about one a clock. After diner I visited the school and college of this place, which is reputed the most flourishing of those, that belong to the reformed Calvinist church in Transylvania. It has three professors, one of philosophy, Stephanus Kolosvari, who has traveled into England; another of divinity, Stephanus Engedi, a learned man, who gave me a popish book, concerning the Emperor’s treatment of the reformed churches in Hungary; and a third of the Greek tongue, logic, and history, Fr. Pariz-Papa, a physician, who presented me with some printed tracts of his own, and a manuscript Itinerary of Dr. Basire prebendary of Durham, left by him in Alba Julia, where he professed divinity during the late usurpation in England.
May xxiii.
We proceed three Hungarian miles from Enyed to Therda, where we arrive about one a clock, and find it a dirty ill built town, but remarkable for its salt pits. It has two Calvinist churches, with one appropriated to the Unitarians. The town stands upon the Aranyas, antiently the Chrysolas, in which the Zingans find gold dust, principally after rain.
May xxiv.
It being Whitsunday, his Excellency halted this day, and in his lodgings had divine service and a sermon. After diner we visit the salt pits, which altogether resemble those of Visakna, except that the salt seems somewhat clearer and stronger. Returning we find the following Roman inscription.
ISIDI