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zeal in investigating the Sprudel. I have described 

 and commented these medals in my work: Carlsbad, 

 ses eaux minerales, etc. p. 206. 



( 2 ) Lobkowitx, an illustrious bohemian nobleman, 

 born in the year 1462 , died in 1510 $ he was one 

 of the most learned men of his age , an admirable 

 latin poet, a great traveller, a distinguished stales- 

 man, and promoted mightily the restauration of the 

 ancient classical litterature in Germany. He studied 

 at Bologna and Ferrara, and visited afterwards se- 

 veral german universities , particularly Strasbourg, 

 then imperial. In 1490, he embarked at Venice, 

 visited the Ionian Islands, Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, 

 the Dardanells, Constantinople, Asia Minor, the soil 

 where Troy was, Smyrna, the ruins of the Temple 

 ofEphesus, went through Cilicia, Pamphilia, Syria, 

 Arabia, and prayed over the cradle and the grave 

 of our Saviour. He meant to go to India , but gave 

 up that dangerous plan. He visited Egypt, its pyra- 

 mids and cataracts, Alexandria, Cairo, the ruins of 

 Carthago, and Tunis ; crossing then the Adriatic, he 

 landed at Venice in 1492. Lobkowitx, who gave an 

 account of his travels in several latin letters, brought 

 back a collection of the rarest and most precious ob- 

 jects, amongst others a manuscript of Plato, for which 

 he paid 2000 Milanese ducats, existing still atRaudnitz, 

 belonging to his family, the princes of Lobkowitx, 

 dukes of Raudnitx. His library was the richest in 

 Germany. His works were published sixty years after 

 his death: Illustris ac Generosi DD. Bohuslavi Has- 

 senstein a Lobkowitz, Baronis Bohemici, poetae, ora- 

 torisque clarissimi Farrago Poernatum in ordinem 



