CHAPTER III. 
Comprehending Travels through the middle Parts of Europe, 
particularly, the United Provinces, the Auftrian Low Countries, 
Germany, Italy, Siioitzerland, Savoy, and the Territories of the 
Republick of Genoa. 
SECTION I. 
Travels of Mr, Maximilian Misson, through Part of Holland, 
the Spanifli Low Countries^ Germany, Tyrol, and the Bi/hoprick of Trent, in his 
TV ay to Italy, containing a diflinEi Account of whatever appear d to him remarkable 
in the Places through which he pajfed ; together with Political^ Hifiorical^ and Criti- 
cal Remarks upon Perfons and "Things^ as he has Occafion to mention them, 
i. A Jhort IntroduBion, containing fome Account of the Author, the Occafion of his Travels, the Nature 
and Defign of his Work, the fever al Editions it has gone through, and what is to be expeBed from this 
Abridgment. 2. A Defcription of the Country of Holland, the Neatnefs of the Cities and great Towns, 
the Conveniences of Travelling, together with fome Account ofi the two great Cities of Amfterdam and 
Rotterdam. 3. A Profecution of the fame SubjeB, including a Defcription of the Town ^ Delft, the 
celebrated Village oj the Hague, the Univerfity of Etyditn and its Curiofities, and the Town ^Haerlem. 
4. A more particular Defcription of the great City of Amfterdam, the publick and private Buildings 
there ; an Account of an Order of Nuns called Beguines, and other Things worthy of Obfervation, 
5. The Author's Journey from Amfterdam to Utrecht, Defcription of the Places upon the Road, and 
Remarks on the Harmony which fubfifis in Germany between Perfons of different Religions. 6. A cir-- 
cumftantial Defcription of the great City ofi Cologne, the Capital of the Archhifihoprick and EleBorate 
ofi that Name, the publick Edifices therein, with fome judicious Remarks upon popifih Superfiition, 
7: The Author s Paffage on the Rhine from Cologne to Mentz, Defcription of the Country and VtU 
lages on both Sides that River, with a CorreBion of a vulgar Miftake about the Tomb of Drufus at 
Mentz. 8. His Pafijage on the Maine from Mentz Franckfort, Defcription of this City j a very 
curious Account of the Golden Bull, the Original of which is kept there, and other Particulars. g.His 
Journey fro?n Franckfort to Worms ; a large Account ofi the lafit mentioned Place, as alfo o/Frankendal, 
Manheim, and Heidelberg. 10. His Pafage from the laft mentioned City, through a very pleafant and 
agreeable Country, to Nurembergh j a Defcription ofi that Place, and of the Diadem of Charlemagne 
kept there 5 of a Book printed by Fauftus in 1446, and another in 1449 j with fome Remarks on the 
Invention of Gunpowder, and other Curiofities. ii. A Defcription ofi Ingolftadt, Neubourgh, and a 
very particular Account of the Imperial City of Augsbourg, the publick Edifices therein, the Drefs, 
Cufioms and Manners of its Inhabitants. 12. An Account ofi the Country of Bdcviivid. y of the Capital 
City ^Munich, the EleB oral Palace there, and other Curiofities, 13. A Defcription of the Country 
^ Tyrol, ofi the City i^Infpruch, of the Houfe there the Porch of which is faid to be covered with 
Gold, the Country Palace ofi the Archdukes at Amras. 14. A View of the remaining Part of the 
Country ofi Tyrol, and of the Bijhoprick Trent, with a Defcription of the City ofi that Name, and 
of whatever is therein remarkable, Remarks and Obfervations upon the foregoing SeBion, 
a Defcription. His Work was originally fmall to what 
it now appears, but as it was very v^ell received, he re- 
viewed it more than once, and made large Additions 
from Time to Tinae to the feveral Editions of it that 
were printed in French ; all of which are preferved in 
the laft Tranflation, in which we find a IMulti* 
tude of Paffages correfled, or render’d more dear ,nd 
explicit, than in any of the former, and therefore we 
have taken Care, in reviewing this Abridgment, to 
compare it therewith, fo as to render it as compleat as 
it is poflible, as well as to free it from the numerous Mk 
flakes that had crept into the former Extrad of it pub- 
liflied by Dr. Harris. 
6 R . The 
HERE are very few Books of 
Travels, that have maintained their 
Credit fo well as thefe of which we 
propofe in this and the following 
Sedtions to give a fuccind Abridge- 
ment. Mr. MiJJon was a Gentle- 
man of great Reading and general 
Knowledge, which recommended 
the Favour and Protedion of the old Duke of 
who committed to his Care his Grandfon, the 
prefent Earl of Arran. He travelled alfo with feveral 
other Noblemen and Gentlemen, which gave him an 
Opportunity of examining very attentively, the Places 
through which he pafs’d, and of which he has given us 
V o E. n. N y M B. CV. 
him to 
Ormond, 
