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through an open Country, I took up my Quarters at 
Molin hrujle^ and entring the Country of Liege the 5th, 
arrived the 6th at Maefiricht^ a ftrong City, fituated’ 
upon the Maes^ four Leagues below Liege. It is chiefly 
confiderable for its Out- works, the Wall itfelf being 
old. To remedy the Inconveniency arifing to the 
Town from an adjacent Hill on the S. E, Side, they 
have made an Horn- work within a Musket- fhot of it, 
and a high Baftion anfwering to it, covers the Town. 
Under this Hill is one of the befl Quarries of Stone in 
the World. On the other Side of the Maes is a Suburb 
Galled the Wicke^ rather ftronger than Maejiricht^ unto 
which it is joined by a Bridge of nine Arches. The 
Country on that Side is flat : The Houfes of Maefiricht 
are none of the handfomeft ; yet the Town-houfe is a 
llately Strudture, {landing in one of the Piazzas -, in 
another Piazza Hands the Great Church. This Town 
was taken by the Spaniards in 1632. O^oher the yth, 
I pafs’d through Gallop, and came the fame Night to 
Aken, Aix la Chapelle, or Aquifgranum, famous for its 
hot Baths. From hence I purfued my Journey to yu- 
but being late,, we pafs’d by if, leaving it to the 
Right. Not far from this City runs a fliallow but 
fwift River, called the Roer, at the Confluence of which 
with the Maes is Roermonde, the capital City of the 
Spanijh G elder land^ feated upon a riling Ground. 
9. Cologne, Collen, or Colonia Agrippina, anciently the 
chief Seat of the Ubii, who firfl: inhabited the Country 
of Bergues, were infeiled by the Germans, and, implo- 
ring the Prote6lion of the Romans, were by them placed 
on the other Side of the Rhine, and fettled in this Place 
by Agrippa Lord Lieutenant of Gallia, and was after- 
wards named Colonia Agrippina, in Honour of Agrippina 
Daughter of Germanicus, and Wife of Claudius, whofe 
Birth-place it was. It may for Extent vie with any City 
of Germany, and is fortified to the Land-fide with two 
high Walls and two deep Trenches, and beautified 
with feveral Rows of pleafant Trees, and fecured on 
the Side of the Rhine by a Wall of Stone ; but its 
greateft Strength confiils in fome Out-works, Half- 
moons and Ravelins, The chief Streets are broad, and 
paved with broad Stones. Maternus, who was prefent 
at the Council of Arles, was their Bifliop at leaft 
1350 Years fince. Great Part of the Town is taken up 
with Churches and Monafteries, many of them very 
well endowed, there being to moil of the Houfes of the 
Canons and Prebends, large Gardens and Vineyards, 
The Church of St. Kunibald lies on the North Side of 
the Town but the Convent of the Dominicans is a very 
fair modern Strudure. The Jefuits Church is full of 
rich Ornaments ; and that dedicated to St. Gereon (who 
was martyred thereabouts in the Time of Maximianus) 
contains above 1000 Saints Heads. In the Church of 
St. Urfula you fee her Tomb, and thofe of 11,000 Vir- 
gins flain by the Huns. The Tomb of Urfula has this 
Infcription : 
Sepulehrum Sandice Urfulre indicio Columba de tedium. 
Upon many of thofe Tombs were old CroflTes and 
Lamps. The Church is alfo full of the Bones and 
Heads of Martyrs. The Cathedral of St. Peter is a 
large Strudure, but remains unfinilhed. Within the 
Body of the Church are four Rows of Pillars, and the 
Choir is very handfomely built ; behind it are fuppofed 
to be the Tombs of the three Wife Men of the Eaft, 
or the Kings of Arabia, commonly called the three 
Kings of Cologn *, Milchior, who, as they fay, offered 
Gold, Gafpar Frankinfence, and Balthafar Myrrhe. 
They relate, that their Bodies were firfl: tranflated to 
Confiantinople by Helena, the Mother of Conftantine the 
Great from thence to Milan by Eadtorfus their Bifhop, 
whence they were removed above 500 Years ago, viz. 
1 1 64. to Cologn, by Rainold Bifhop of this Diocefe. 
All the Canons of this Church muft be Noblemen. 
Upon one of the Ruins in the Street, you fee a Tomb 
made of one Stone, of which Kind many more are to 
be met with in other Places of this City. Of thefe I 
faw a great Number at Arles in Provence. The Town- 
houfe is an elegant Strudure j on the Front of which 
Eh ’Pravets Book II. 
is a Man in Baffo relievo, engaged with a Lion, who, as 
they relate, was a Barger- mailer of that City, that ha- 
ving exafperated the Clergy again fl; him, upon fome 
Difference, they fent in a Lion upon him, whom he 
flew upon the' Spot. The Eledor of Cologn, who is 
alfo their Archbifliop, has two Palaces here, but by 
Agreement is not to flay above three Days at a Time. 
It is a free Imperial City, notwithftanding which it does 
Homage to the Eledor, 
The Inhabitants are generally Roman Catholkh, and 
the City, by reafon of the vaft Number of Convents, 
Churches, and Reliques, is fliled the Rome of Germany. 
However, the Lutherans have a Church within the Pre- 
cind of the Walls, and the Calvinijis another at Mul- 
heim, about two Miles below it, on the other Side of 
the Rhine. Juft oppofite to Cologne is the Village of 
the Dutz, inhabited chiefly by Jews. They fpeak but 
a Kind of odd High-Dutch j but to recompence this, 
the Latin and French are much in Ufe here. It was 
made an Univerfity in 1388, and has four very good 
Hofpitals, two for young and old Perfons that are in- 
firm, and two for the Sick. After we left Cologne, we 
were drav/n up the Rhine by Horfes, and lodged the 
fame Night at a fmalj Village, near which Julius Cafar 
made his Bridge over the PAine. 
10. We came the next Day to Bonne, the ordinary 
Refidence of the Eledor of Cologne. It was formerly 
called Cadira Bonnenfia, as being the Station of the fixth 
Legion in Winter, in the Time of TacitUs. The 
Archbifhop’s Palace is a noble Edifice, ftretching a 
good Way into tht Rhine. We took our Quarters this 
Night at the Foot of one of the feven Hills near the 
Rhine, moft of which have old ruined Caftles upon 
them. On the 1 5th we pafs’d by a very pleafant Ifland, 
with a Convent in it ; we fav; alfo the Convent at Re- 
magen, built upon a Rock, and fortified with round 
Towers, and came the i6th in the Morning to Andcr- 
nach or Antenacum, one of the Roman Fortreffes upon 
the Rhine. Some affirm, that this was the Birth-place 
of Caligula, and that Valentinian was buried near it. 
There are divers Mineral Springs hereabouts. The 
City is only fortified with an old Wall. The Water- 
paffage being grown tedious, we hired a Coach to Cob- 
lentz, and paffing through a very agreeable Country,, 
planted with Wallnut Trees, and in Sight of two of 
the Eledor of Lreves^^ Country Houfes, we crofs’d the 
River Mofelle, over a very fine Bridge, fuftain’d by 
thirteen Arches, built in 1344, by Archbifliop Baldwin. 
We went inimediately to the Convent of the Domini- 
cans, very agreeably feated upon the Banks of the Rhine ^ 
the Prior of which being in our Company, he would 
needs keep us v/ith him all Night, and entertained us 
with an handfome Supper, and excellent Mofelle Wine. 
Coblentz or Confluentia, is fo called, from its Situation at 
the Confluence of the Rhine and Mofelle, which make two 
Sides of it, the Third being a noble Fortification, after 
the modern Way, from one River to the other, v^hich 
makes it of a triangular Figure. It has an old Wall 
within the Works, and is under the Jurifdidion of the 
Eledor and Archbifliop of Treves, as is likewife the 
Caftle of Hermanjiein, {Hermans fterna) by fome called 
Ehrenbreitdiein, built juft over againft it on the other 
Side of the Rhine, being join’d to Coblentz by a long. 
Bridge. At the Foot of a Rock juft underneath this 
Caftle, you fee a very noble Palace belonging to the 
Eledor, having two very large Wings, and a Fort 
with five Pavilions, facing the Rhine. Not far from 
Coblentz, the Carthufians have a Convent pleafantly feat- 
ed upon a Plill. 
Odlober the 17th, we continued our Voyage upon the 
Rhine to Boppart, a walFd Town upon the Weftern 
Bank, an ancient Fortrefs of the Romans, known by the 
Name of Bodohriga. 
The i8th, we dined z.tSt.Goar, a Place upon the 
River, under the Jurifdidion of the Lantgrave of Hejfe, 
who has a Caftle here. On the Outfide of the Wall of 
the Town is faftned a Collar of Brafs, given, as they 
fay, by Charles V. It is ahe Cuftom, that fich Stran- 
gers as come afiiore here, muft put their Knees into 
this Collar, when they are ask’d, Whether they will be 
fprinkled 
