IX.--Migrations of the Tyrolese--Their Frankness--Their Attachment to the House of Austria--Anecdote of the Archduchess Elizabeth--Literary Turn of the Tyrolese-- Their Extraordinary Honesty--Fondness for Pugilistic Exercises and the Chase--Ancient Practice--Moral Character--Superstition--Mechanical Genius--Persons and Costumes--National Songs--Custom of visiting the Graves of Relations--Marriage Ceremonies of the Tyrolese 32 HUNGARY. X.--Extent--Division--Constitution--Vast Estates of the Magnats--State of the Peasantry--Their Indolence--Thievish Disposition of the Herdsmen--Punishments--Hungarian Prison--General Appearance of the Peasants and their Habitations in different Counties--Horned Cattle--Sheep--Village Herdsmen--Ravages of Wolves--Granaries--Costumes 49 TRANSYLVANIA. XI.--Extent of Population--Manners of the Walachians--The Gipsies--Costumes 70 BUKOWINA. XII.--Transfer of the Country to Austria--Extent--Population-- Costumes 81 THE MILITARY FRONTIERS. XIII.--Military Constitution--Carlstadt Frontier--Banal Frontier--Slavonia--Banat Frontier 86 GALICIA, OR AUSTRIAN POLAND. XIV.--Extent and Nature of the Country--Benefits resulting to the People from the Partition of Poland--Cruelty and Injustice of the Ancient System--Superior Degree of Security enjoyed under the Austrian Government--Mode of Building--Appearance of a Polish Village--Inns--Jews--Uncleanliness of the Poles 100 LIST OF PLATES. 1. Clementinian Women of Slavonia, _Frontispiece_ 2. Peasant of Egra in Winter dress, _to face page_ 28 3. Peasant of the Mountains of Moravia 31 4. Tyrolese Hunter 37 5. Hungarian Peasant of the County of Weszprim 64 6. Armed Plajash 80 7. Boyar of Szered 82 8. Unmarried Female of Jackobeny 84 9. Female Peasant of Philippowan 85 10. Tanaszia Dorojevich, Vice Haram-Bassa of the Szeressans 88 11. Unmarried Female of Ottochacz 93 12. Unmarried Female of Glina 94 AUSTRIA. CHAPTER. I. PROVINCES OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE--THEIR EXTENT AND POPULATION.