Particularly Mr. Paget and myself were favoured with the company and attendance of one _Lodislaus Doeza_, a civil, intelligent, and well behaved gentleman of the Helvetian confession. And this afternoon Mr. Paget and I walked up the castle hill, from whence we had a prospect of the city, which is almost triangular, enclosed with a stone wall, situated in a narrow vale, under an high snowy clift of mountains, but on one side looking towards a level and fruitful plain. It is surrounded with three distinct suburbs, beautifully intermixed with gardens; and in one part of these suburbs, which runs more within the hills, stands an handsome Valachian church. A dreadful fire about fourteen years since laid the whole town in ashes, and at the same time utterly consumed the library of the school, which is here instituted for teaching of philosophy and theology. The same calamity almost ruined the cathedral church, of which now nothing but the outward case remains to testify its former grandeur; the roof, which was of arched stone, being now only covered with boards. The general religion of this place is Lutheran; and the church above mentioned is governed by a dean and thirteen capitularies, who enjoy considerable rents from the thirteen parishes of the district of _Cronstadt_, which are supplied by them. The ecclesiastical government of the whole district is partly in this chapter, and partly in the superintendent of _Cronstadt_; which office is sometimes distinct, but for the most part held together with the deanry; and from this superintendent appeals lie to the bishop of the whole province of Transylvania. The civil government of the town is in a judge elected every two years, a senate, and a commonalty of an hundred men. The sentence of the judge is final, and is governed by laws of the place model’d according to the civil law. The city since the fire is fairly rebuilt, with a certain regularity of walls and windows to the street, and the roofs are all covered, as in _Valachia_, with wooden tiles. The common language is Saxon; this being one of the cities, which belong to the great colony of that nation, which makes one third of _Transylvania_. May ix. This morning we depart from _Cronstadt_ at six a clock by the way of _Feketeholm_, which has a church fortified like a garrison. From thence we proceed thro woods and hills to _Veledin_; where in a cold watery plot of grass, surrounded with woods, we lodge this night in tents. Here I took leave of Count _Tomáso_, who then presented me with two other books from _Constantinus Stolnichus_. May x.