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on with it, notwithftanding many Difficulties, which 
(as he tells us) he met with in the Undertaking, and 
publish'd the firft Volume laft Year. 
This firft Volume is to be follow'd by feveral 
others 5 for the Kingdom of Hungary includes 48 
Diftri&s or Counties, and this Volume gives an Ac- 
count of only one of them, and indeed is chiefly 
taken up with the Hiftory of the City of Bresburg 
(or Tifonium , as he calls it) ; which, though inferior 
in other refpe&s to the City Buda , is the Place where 
the Emperors (as Kings of Hungary) are crown'd, 
where the States of the Kingdom aflemble, and the 
Courts of Juftice are held. 
This Volume confifts of two Parts. The Firft is 
general, and gives an Account of the phyfical and 
political State of the whole Diftrift or County of 
Bifonium , defcribing its Soil, Produce, Rivers, the 
Temperature of its Air, the Nature of its Inhabitants * 
its antient Inhabitants and prefent ones, its Nobility, 
Magiftrates, and whatfoever belongs to the natural 
and political Hiftory of the Diftrift. 
The fecond Part (which is much the largeft) is 
taken up with the Defcription of the City Bresburg 5 
where the Author is very copious and elaborate in 
fetting forth every thing that relates to it: Particu- 
larly its antient State under the feveral Nations who 
polfefs'd it, and its prefent State under the Aufirian 
Family 5 all its Privileges and Prerogatives, efpecially 
of the Inauguration of their Kings, which he defcribes 
in all its Parts, even to a moft minute Exa&nefs. 
He then enters into a Detail of the prefent State of 
the City, its Churches, and other public Buildings, 
its Magiftrates, Iflands adjoining, and the Country 
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