53a Misson’j travels through the Book If* 
Apartment is an hundred and eighteen Foot long, and 
fifty two broad ; it is truly magnificent, efpecially in 
refpeft of its curious Pidures, which are all Hijiories, 
the facred on one Side, and the profane on the other, 
every Hiftory having a Latin Infcription in Verfe, one 
of the beft of which is the Diftich annex’d to that of 
Cajia Sufanna placet ; Lucretia cede Sufanna^ 
‘Tu poji. Ilia mori maluity ante fcelus. 
In the little Chapel belonging to the Apartment of 
the Eledorefs, you fee Nothing almoft but Gold, Pearls 
and Gems. Among the Relicks they fhew you a Piece 
of Gold Mohair, which they pretend to be Part of the 
Virgin’s Robes. The Parlour of Perfpedives is ex- 
tremely fine ; but the Hall of Antiquities, that were 
brought hither from RomCy exceeds all the reft j we 
counted no lefs than one hundred ninety two Bufts, and 
four hundred other Pieces here, all highly efteem’d for 
their exquifite Workmanfhip and Antiquity. The Fur- 
niture of this Palace is rich beyond what can be ima- 
gined, and they told us, that befides the Tapeftry in 
Ufe, there were laid up in the Wardrobe to the Value 
of eight Millions of Crowns ; but here, I am afraid, 
they overftioot the Mark. The Treafury contains whole 
Services of Gold, and many other precious Veflels, vaft 
Quantity of Pearls, Diamonds, Rubies, and other pre- 
cious Stones, befides an infinite Number of rare Pic- 
tures, curious Works, Medals, and valuable Rarities ; 
among the reft is a Cherry-ftone, upon which you fee 
diftindly engraven one hundred and forty Heads ; and 
a Gondola of Palm-tree Wood turn’d into Stone, with 
this Infcription : 
Palma fuiy ccepi lapidefcere^ cymhula nunc fum^ 
Si non JNeptunus, Navita Bacchus erit. 
Where-ever you turn your Eyes in this Palace, you fee 
nothing but Marble, though, to unravel the Secret, it is 
to be told, that this is only a certain Compofition, which 
they know how to harden and polifh fo artificially, that 
it appears like and lafts as well as Marble. They have 
divers fubterraneous Walks or Galleries, leading from 
the Palace to all the Churches and Convents of the 
City. The Arfenal was at that Time almoft unfurnifti- 
ed, moft of the beft Arms and Cannon being carried 
from thence into Hungary. They fhew’d us heVe the 
Grand Vizier’s Tent, taken in the laft Battle, which 
was more remarkable for its Bignefs than its Beauty ; 
the Materials were only of painted Calico, with fine 
Sattin Strings, cover’d with Silk Braid, and the Lozen- 
ges of the fame, interwoven betwixt the Strings. This 
Country produces no Wine, and as they know no other 
Religion but the Romany fo they look upon thofe of 
another Perfuafion as Monfters rather than Men. 
12. After we had travel’d for fome Time along the 
Banks of the River Ifery (upon which Munich is feated) 
we palfed through a Foreft, and immediately on our 
coming out from thence, difcover’d the fnowy Tops of 
the Alps, which at a Diftance appear’d like the foaming 
Waves of a raging Sea : We came the fame Day to a 
Village call’d Legremy feated near a fmall Lake of frefti 
Water at the Foot of the Mountains ; we eat here fome 
Fifh of a Kind which we had never feen before. We 
coafted along the Mountains for two Hours, and by 
Degrees got within the Rocks cover’d with Fir-trees 
and Snow, being a moft defolate. Place, and deftitute 
of InhabitantiS, except that near two or three Lakes 
you meet with a few Fifhers Hurts, made of the Roots 
of Fir-trees well joined together, their Boats being 
made of the fame Trees hollow’d out, like Indian Ca- 
noes. At the Village of Mittenwaldy three Leagues 
within the Mountains, feated in a pleafant Valley fur- 
Tounded with Rocks, they treated us with fome Goats 
Fiefii and Salmon Trouts. Our Hoft fhewed us a cer- 
tian Kind of round Stones of the Bignefs of a Hen’s 
Egg, which he affured us were found in the Stomach 
of their Goats, and refembled a foft, imperfed Bezoar j 
he ask’d ten Crowns a-piece for them. 
We were not gone far from this Village, but we met 
a Troop of Beggars ading the Hiftory of the Rally for 
they had planted a Tree loaden with red Fruit in the 
Way, climbing up againft which, was a little Devil in 
the Shape of a Crocodile, whilft a Girl with long di- 
Ihevei’d Hair approach’d towards it, and an old FeL 
low clad in Black, with a young Boy clad in White 
holding a Sword in his Hand, flood at a little Di? 
fiance, and upon our Approach the Play began. The lit- 
tle Boy with the Dagger reprefented Michael the Arch- 
angel I need not fay in what Charader the Old 
Man appeared, tho’ he told me in very plain Terms. 
The Reader will eafily judge what terrible Effeds, in? 
regard to true Religion, fuch Follies mull produce. 
Within a Quarter of an Hour after, we paffed by 
the Fort ChernitZy built betwixt two inaccellible Rocks^ 
being the common Boundary of Tyrol, and the Bifhop- 
rick of Rreifingeuy the firft whereof belongs to the Em- 
peror, the laft is Part of the Country of Bavaria. At 
Night we came to the Village of Leefeld, where is a 
Convent of Au§iin Fryars : In their Church they Ihew 
you two or three pretended Miracles, and among the 
reft, a chew’d and bloody Hoft, in a Repofitory of 
Glafs : They tell you, that a Gentleman named Milfer, 
Lord of the Caftle of Schlesburgh, being fo vain as to 
oblige therh to give him the great Hoft, which is only 
for the Ufe of the Clergy, he had no fooner put it 
into his Mouth, but it call out a Flood of Blood, and 
at the fame Time his Legs funk into the Pavement up to 
his Knees •, they fliew you the Hole to this Day in the 
Pavement near the Altar, and the Print of his Hand 
on one of the Stones of the fame Altar, where he 
would have fupported himfelf. His Repentance how- 
ever faved him, and left thefe Veftiges to deter others 
from attempting the like mighty Crime in the Sight of 
the Priefts. This Hoft alfo works Miracles, amongft 
which we may very well reckon the Inhabitants believing 
implicitly every Word of this Story. 
About two Leagues beyond Seefeld we began to de- 
fcend into a Valley, at leaft a Mile in Breadth, fprink- 
led with divers pretty little Villages, water’d by the 
River Ihn : We paffed only on the right Side of it, 
along the Foot of the Mountain, where, after we had 
travel’d a League further, they fhew’d us a {freight and 
craggy Rock, called the EmperoAs Rock, above a hun- 
dred Fathoms high, (as they affured us) at about three 
Quarters of the Height of which we could obferve a 
Nich dug, in which flood a Crucifix, with a Statue on 
each Side : They tell you, that the Emperor Maximi- 
lian I. being in Chafe of a wild Goat, purfued her to 
this Place, where alighting from his Horfe, he durft 
not remount it, but was forc’d to be brought down by 
the Help of Engines. Ll^ere is indeed another Ac- 
count of this Matter, which has received the Sandion of 
many great Names, particularly, of Stephen Pigghius, who 
relates, that the Archduke Maximiliany after remaining 
two Days and two Nights in the Sight of Multitudes of 
People, in the Place where this Crucifix now {lands, was 
at length conduded fafely back by a Perfon unknown, 
and therefore fuppofed to have been an Angel, in Me- 
mory of which thefe Monuments are placed. Our Au- 
thor added this Story in his later Editions, and brought 
fome Inftances to fupport it, yet to many Readers, no 
doubt, his firft Account will appear the moft fatisfadlory. 
Infprucky a City feated upon the River Ihn, about 
two Hours beyond the Middle of the before-mention’d 
Valley : Before you enter the City, you pafs that River 
over a Bridge, whence it received the Name of Infpruck, 
i. e. The Bridge of the Ihn, and Mnipons or AEnipontum 
in Latin. The Houfes of Infpruck are very fine, but 
their Roofs are built after an odd Manner, being flat 
on the Top, and the Rafters, inftead of rifing to a 
Point, are revers’d, fo that the Rain fettles always in the 
Middle of the Roof. The Palace of Infpruck, where 
the Duke of Lorrain refided as Governor, is both con- 
venient and large, but neither beautiful nor regular, ha- 
ving been built at different Times. There is one Thing 
particular here, of which I will endeavour to give you 
the beft Account I can : There Hands in the Middle 
of the City a Houfe, call’d the Chancery, the Roof of 
