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amount are sold at the fairs before noticed, and 

 from thence dispersed through the several divi- 

 sions of the east and south-east of Europe, yet in 

 each of those divisions there are manufactories for 

 such goods, and some upon a respectable scale. 

 In Bavaria, the silver manufactured in Augsburg 

 is of large amount. In Munich, the capital, there 

 are sixteen goldsmiths and seventeen silversmiths, 

 besides jewellers and watchmakers. Nuremburg 

 has been long celebrated for its gilding ; and the 

 gold-beaters there prepare much leaf gold, the 

 quality of which is considered to be superior to 

 any other. In Austria, though the Emperor 

 Joseph the Second induced many French and 

 Swiss watchmakers to establish themselves in 

 Vienna, foreign watches are sold cheaper and 

 more extensively than those of their own ma- 

 nufacture ; but in gold and silver plate, the 

 workmen of Vienna combine solidity with 

 elegance, and their articles are more abundantly 

 spread within the empire than any of French or 

 other foreign fabrication. The jewellers of Vi- 

 enna maintain the opinion that their work is 

 superior to any other in Europe. From the 

 general state of ease in which the great body of 

 the inhabitants of those fertile dominions live, 

 from the number of enormously rich nobles, and 

 from the general taste for whatever is ornamental, 

 the application of gold and silver to purposes of 

 utility and of decoration must be very con- 



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