Chap. V. through Austria, Bohemia, MoraviA, &c. 740 
South-fide of which you fee the Piflure of St. 'Peter 
in a Boat, and on the oppofite Side the Apoftle’s firft 
Miffion. In the Piazza ftands a fmaJl but very neat 
Church j the Convent of St. Paul^ another of St. Eme- 
T ciYyiTYius Blfhop of Rdtisbor.y and a celebrated Saint in 
thofe Parts : Albertus Magnus^ who was alfo Bifliop of 
Ratisbon^ has made no fmall Addition to its Fame. 
But the chief Glory of this Place is the Diet, or Gene- 
ral Affembly of the States of the Empire, which is 
call’d together here. Upon this Occafion the Vice- 
Marfhal is obliged to take Care that Lodgings are 
provided for the Perfons that are to appear there ; 
that Provifions may be brought thither in Plenty, and 
fold at a fet Rate ; that the Place of the Affembly be 
adorned fuitable to fo great an Occafion, and the pub- 
lick Safety be not violated. 
In this Place I entred that famous River the Danube^ 
which beginning to be navigable in Suabia^ paffes by 
Eonawert^ ISiewburg, and Ingoljiadt ; it is increafed by 
the River Licus, or Leek j by which the Commodities 
of the famous City of Augsburg are tranfported into it. 
From Regensburg we pafs’d the firft Day to Thonaivjlein, 
(Danube-Jione) whei;e is a Caftle feated upOn a high 
Rock, and thence to Pfeter, famous among the An- 
cients, by the Name of Vetera Ca§ira^ now an inconfi- 
derable Place. The Boats made Ufe of upon the Da- 
nube are generally flat bottom’d, and broad at the Plead 
and Stern *, there is an Apartment for Paflengers in 
the Middle, and they have very large Rudders, the 
better to command the Boats where the Current is fwift. 
The next Day we pafled by Straubingen, a wall’d Town 
belonging to the Eledlor of Bavaria ; and the fame 
Afternoon by Swartz, where we faw a Church upon a 
Hill, much frequented by Pilgrims •, we lodg’d that 
Night at Deckendorff, near which the River Ifer, or Ifa- 
ra, after having pafled by Land/hut, Frifing, and Mun- 
chen, (the ordinary Refidence of the Elector oi Bavaria) 
falls into the Danube, 
Phurfday, being November the 15th, we pafs’d by 
Wiljlooven to Pajfaw, Pajfovia, or Boiodurum, a hand- 
fome City in the lower Bavaria, formerly known by 
the Name of Caflra Batava among the Romans, who 
had fettled a Colony there. It is compofed of three 
Towns, viz. Illjiadt, PaJJaw, and InPsadt, and feated at 
the Meeting of the three Rivers, the Inne, the Danube, 
and the lltz. It has feveral very fair Churches, amongft 
which that of St. Stephen exceeds the reft. The Bifhop’s 
Refidence is a Caftle built upon a Hill ; his Revenues 
are very confiderable. Part of which arife from the 
great Lead-Mine at Bleyberg in Carinthia. It was, not 
many Years ago, almoft laid in Afhes, by an accidental 
Fire, and as moft of the Streets have been rebuilt flnee 
after the Manner, fo this City may nowjuftly 
claim to be inferted in the Number of the ten confl- 
derable Cities upon the Danube, viz. Ulm, Ingoljiadt, 
Ratisbon, Pajfaw, Lintz, Vienna, Presburg, Strigonium, 
Buda, and Belgrade ; the eight laft of which I had the 
Opportunity to fee, before the End of my Journey. 
Juft by a Wall, oppofite to the Great Church at Paf- 
Jaw, ftands a very large Head cut in Stone, the Mouth 
being two Spans wide, and the reft proportionable. In 
the River lltz, which comes from the North, they find 
Abundance of Pearls : And the noble River Inne co- 
ming from the South, and pafllng by Infprung, is aug- 
mented by the River Saltz, fupon which ftands th^e 
City of Saltzburg) difeharges itfelf with great Force 
into the Danube, being the largeft Stream that hitherto 
had joined that River. The River Inne rifes among the 
Alps \n Fyrol. The i6th we arrived at Lintz, the Ca- 
pital of the Lower Aujlria, not fo confiderable for its 
Bignefs as Neatnefs, the whole Town being built of a 
white Free-ftone, and the Market-place very fpacious 
and handfonie. The Caftle lies upon a Hill, and is 
fortified after the modern Way. It has a Bridge alfo 
over the Danube. When Solyman the Magnificent befieged 
Vienna, this was the Rendezvous of the Imperial Army. Jt 
was befieged by 40^000 Peafants 'inFerdinand IPs Time i 
but relieved by Pappenheim. Somewhat below Lintz, the 
River Draun, which riles out of the Gemmder Sea (or 
Lacus Felicis) joins its Current with the Danube. 
The 17th, we pafs’d by Embs, or Anifia, fituated up- 
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on the River Anifius or Onafus, which rifing hear the 
Frontiers of Saltzburg, and being augmented by the 
River Saltza, upon which ftands Maria Cell, noted for 
Pilgrimages, divides the Higher and Lower Aufiria, and 
then falls into the Danube. Flereabouts flood the anci- 
cent Lauriacum, a Roman Garrifon, where a great many 
Roman Coins and Antiquities are found. On the 
North Side of the Danube we faw a Seat of the Earl of 
Leichtenjleyn, near the Village of Greim. Not far be- 
low this Village are two dangerous Paflages in the Da- 
nube, called the Strudel and the Wurbel ; the firft is a 
Place where the River being forced among the Rocks, 
fome under, fome above Water, the Waves are broken, 
and render the Current rapid and troubleforrie, requi- 
ring a great deal of Skill to pafs through the Ledges 
of the Rocks, efpecially when it is low Water the 
fecond is a Kind of Whirlpool, where the Current be- 
ing forcibly repel’d by a great Rock, turns round with 
much Violence. Hard by, on the Top of a craggy 
Rock, you fee a large Crofs, and at the Foot a Chapel 
dedicated to St. Nicholas, who being look’d upon as 
Patron and Proteeftor of flich as have pafs’d fafely this 
Way, a Boat comes thence to receive fuch Prefents as 
the Paflengers are willing to give. We took up our 
Lodgings this Night at Ips, on the South-fide of the 
Danube ; oppofite to which is Befenbeug or Usbium Pto- 
lomFi. Two German Leagues below Ips lies Pechlarn, 
believed by fome to be the old Arlape, where the Ri- 
ver Erlaph falls into the Danube. A Mile and a half 
lower you fee Melcke, formerly the Refidence of the 
Marqueffes of Aujlria, which was thence removed, firft 
to Leopold, and afterwards to Vienna. The City is built 
along the South-fide of the River ; the Monaftery of 
the Benedidiines is feated upon a high Hill ; has very 
great Endowments, and many Monuments of great 
Perfonages, and among the reft the Tomb of St, Col- 
man. We dined at Steyn, where is a ftately Bridge 
over the Danube. Near to this lies Cfembs, a walled 
Town, and on the oppofite Side Mautern *, not far 
fmm whence is the rich Monaftery called Keiweinr A 
little beyond it the River Fraifin, 6v Fragifama, comes 
from the South. Afterward we pafs’d by the famous 
Town of St. Fold ; and taking up our (garters that 
Night at St. Eldorfij, went the next Day by Fhuln, Stoc- 
kerau, and CloiPier Neuburg, IAiej\y to Vienna. 
15. Vienna, called Wien by the Germans, and Beach 
by the Furks, is the capital City of all Aufiria, fituate in 
43° 20 , differing not much from the Latitude of Pa- 
ris, the Seat of the Archdukes of Aufiria and the Ger- 
man Emperors. According to ancient Geographers, 
this City belonged to the Upper Pannonia \ the Limits of 
Pannonia extending as far ks Kalemberg, or Mons Cetius, 
about fix Miles to the Weftward of Vienna •, beyond 
which all that lies more Weftward, betwixt that Moun- 
tain and the River Inne, or Genus, which falls into the 
Danube at Pajfaw, was anciently called Noricum. 
Several of the Roman Emperors, and efpecially Mar- 
cus Antoninus Philofophus, have made themfelves famous 
by their great Adions againft the Marcomanni and 
^adi ; the laft of which, after he had routed thefe 
Nations, fell fick at Caxnuntim or Petronel, and died 
at Vindobona now Vienna, fituate upon the South Shore 
of the Danube ; which is the Reafon, that at feveral 
Tim.es, but efpecially in 1662, many Roman Antiqui- 
ties have been found hereabouts ; the laft was a Kind of 
Coffin containing hard Earth and Bones, with a fmall 
Gold Coin, a Glafs Urn in a Brafs Cafe, an Iron Knife 
like thofe ufed anciently in Sacrifices ; a little Roll of 
pure Gold, clofed with a Golden Cover at both Ends, 
with an Infeription ; which, according to Lambecius^s 
Opinion, was in old Pannonian Charadiers. Not far 
from the Monument itfelf, which was under the Foun- 
dation of a Wall near the old Palace, they found a 
Head in Brafs, a Patera, Lamps, Lachrymatories, and 
other Veflels of the fame Metal, and a Copper Coin of 
Antoninus Caracalla. 
This City is not feated upon the Channel of the Da- 
nube, but only upon a Branch thereof, of which there 
are feveral that make divers fmall Iflands. - The River 
Wien (which has imparted its Name to the Place) paffes 
by the Eaft-parc of the City, and below it falls into the 
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