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To put the statistical figures in another way, Mr. Boner,[8] writing in 1865, calculates that the Roumains, naturalised in Southern Hungary, number 596 out of every 1000 souls in Transylvania.
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"The Wallacks find it too much trouble to fell the trees," says Mr Boner.
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Judging from what I saw during my travels in Hungary in 1875-76, I should say the evil described by Mr Boner ten years before has in no way abated.
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Certain it is that the name and fame of many of the great Romans are still known to the Wallacks; and the story is told by Mr Boner, that they have a catechism which teaches the children to say that they have Ovid and Virgil for their ancestors, and that they are descended from demigods!
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"They are all 'noble,'" says Mr Boner, "and proudly and steadfastly adhere to and uphold their old rights and privileges, such as right of limiting and of pasture.
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"[17] In another place Mr Boner says, "The Szekler soldier, I was told, was 'excessive,' which means extreme, in all he did."
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[Footnote 17: Boner's Transylvania, p.
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When Mr Boner was travelling in Szeklerland he was also, _nolens volens_, raised to the peerage, so I suppose it is a settled conviction of the people that we are all lords in Great Britain.