Buda

which is the smaller of the two, and lies on the W. ’ bank of the river (here flowing S.), consists of the fortified Upper Town on a hill, the Lower Town or Water Town at the foot of the hill, and several other quarters, including Old Buda farther up the river. Budapest contains the most important of the three universities of Hungary, attended by about 4,500 students and having over 220 profe ors, lecturers, etc. Ancther important educational institution is the technical high schools, with 60 teachers and 1,100 to 1,200 students, and a library of 60,000 volumes. In commerce and industry Budapest ranks next to Vienna in the empire. Its chief manufactures are machinery, gold, silver, ome per, and iron wares, chemical, textile goods, leather, tobacco, ete. <A large trade is done in grain, wine, wool, cattle, etc. At Budapest are the largest electrical works in all Europe. Engineers employed there have brought to perfection the science of applying electricity to motors. They constructed there the first succe ful under trolley lines. Their ideas have mn adopted in the’ construction of electric roads all over the world. Tn 1799 the joint population of the two towns was little more than 50,000; in 1890 it was 506.384; in 1900, 732,322.