Szerecz Imre (szerk.): Richard Bright utazásai a Dunántúlon 1815 (Veszprém Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, 1970)

RÉSZLET A KÖTET ELŐSZAVÁBÓL A I RAGMENT FROM THE PREFACE OF THE VOLUME PREFACE. IT has been the object of the author, in the following work, to lay before his readers the in­formation he has collected respecting the state of a country but little examined by Englishmen, be­cause placed beyond the usual circuit of the tra­veller's observation. Amongst the labourers who have hitherto gathered in the same field, Townson has, undoubtedly, been the most industrious; and his merits have been acknowledged for a period of twenty years. That Hungary has shared less than most other European states, in the rapid events to which the arms and the ambition of mo­dern times have given rise, is true ; she has had her eventful days ; she has experienced her u

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