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I. AS we have already given an Account of the 
/% Author, we fliall only obfcrve, that having 
JLJm fpent a great Deal of Time in vifiting the 
1 different Parts of the Kingdom of Hun- 
\gary, and in the Examination of the Curiofities it con- 
tains, Browne thought he could not do a more accep- 
table Service to Ms Countrymen, than by giving them 
a fuccindl View of the Refult of thefe Examinations and 
Inquiries. It is a received Opinion, that the Air in this 
Country is very unwholfome, which is attributed to ma- 
ny Caufes j firft, the Flatnefs of the Country, for where 
there are no Mountains, there are feldom any Winds 
' fufficieht to cleanfe and purify the Air. 'Secondly, the 
Soil being marfhy and full of Minerals, the Vapours 
riling from thence are fuppofed to be tinged with Parti- 
cles far from being Salutary to the human Body. 
Thirdly, the extream Heat in Summer, and the thick 
Mills and Fogs in Winter and in Autumn, contribute 
not a little to draw this evil Report upon the Climate. 
But after all, it is very certain, that the Natives of Hun- 
gary live many of them to a vail Age ; and though it 
be true, that it was formerly lliled at Vienna^ Ccsmeteri- 
mn Germamruniy that is, the Churchyard of the Ger- 
mans, yet perhaps a candid Judge upon a fair Hearing, 
would be inclined to acquit the Air of Hungary of the 
Murder of the Germans, and advife a frelh Indidlment 
againll the Wines. The Truth of the Matter feems to 
be, that in this rich and plentiful Country, Strangers are 
"apt to indulge themfelves too much j and in that Cafe 
it mull be owned, that the Climate is not very favour- 
able, for without vigorous and conllant Exercife, the 
Natives themfelves would not be able to maintain fuch 
robull Conllitutions as they are famed for, confidering 
the Liberties they take in Eating and Drinking. 
But except this Charge in Relation to the Air, there 
feems to be no Impeachment againll the Excellency of 
this Country, which in Time paft, and while under the 
Government of its Native Princes made as great a Fi- 
gure as any in Europe *, and its Inhabitants had the Ho- 
nour to give the firll Check to the Arms of the Maho- 
metans on this Side, as the French did on the other, and 
prevented them thereby from over- running all Europe. 
Since it fell under the Dominion of the Houfe of Auflria, 
it has indeed made a lefs Figure, and grown more out 
of Knowledge as all Kingdoms do when they become 
Provinces *, and to the fame Caufe it has been owing that 
the Turks have made themfelves Mafters of fo great a 
Part of it, and that it has been fo ruined and diflraded 
by intefline Divifions and civil Wars, that for their Seve- 
rity and Length, there are fcarce the like to be met with 
in Hiflory. But thefe are cafual Events common to 
other Countries as well as Hungary, and which cannot 
be reafonably urged as derogatory from or deftrudlive of 
thofe high Perfedlions, which it enjoys from Nature, and 
which ought to render it as much the Objedl of A^tten- 
tion to Strangers, as any other Country upon the Globe. 
For if we were to enumerate the feveral Advantages that 
diftinguifh thofe Countries of the World that are 
moft defervedly famous, we might venture to affirm, 
ihat almoft all of them may be found here. Since if Ger- 
many boafts her fine Rivers, Italy her golden Fruits, Si- 
cily her copious Harvefls, France her generous Wines j 
in ffiort, if the numerous Commodities of Europe, if the 
luxurious Plenty of Afta, if the various Curiofities of 
Africa, if the Silver of Mexico, and the Gold of Peru, 
are fit Objedls of our Admiration, Hungary muft claim 
k too no Country is better watered, none more fertile, 
none more pleafant, none yields better Fruits, none pro- 
duces richer Wines, none abounds more with Cattle, 
none, notwithflanding all thefe Riches above Ground, can 
boaft a greater Wealth below. But to clear up all this, 
, let us now enter a little into Particulars. 
On the Eaft-fide it has that noble River Tibifcus, or 
' the Theyffe, rifing at the Foot of tht, Carpathian Moun- 
tain, in the Country of Maromorus, and being increafed 
by the Waters of the River Marifcus, or Marifa, and 
of feveral others, joins its Current with the Danube be- 
tween. Waradin St. Peter, and Belgrade. This River 
carries vaft Quantities of Stone Salt from the Salt Mines 
of Hungary and Tranfilvanla^ and fo by the Danube to all 
N E ’ j Travels Book I !. 
Places as far as Preshurgb, (it being not permitted to 
be carried higher, that it may not obflrud the Sale of 
the Aujlrian Salt) a confiderable Quantity of the fame 
Salt being carried down the Danube, and fo by the Ri- 
ver Morava into Servia, and other Countries adjacent. 
On the Weft-fide is the River Rab [Arabo) which has 
its Rife in Styria, and being in its Paffage augmented 
by the Waters of the Lauffmz, Pinca, Guncz, and other 
Rivers, falls into the Danube near Raab or J avrinum^ 
Fhe late Defeat of the Turks at St. Gothard near this 
River, has rendered its Name famous to Poflerity. Up- 
on the South-fide are two very confiderable Rivers the 
Dravus or Drave, and the Savus or Save. The firft has 
its Source in the Country of Salizburgh, (Part of the an- 
cient Horicum) and after a Courfe of three hundred 
Miles through Carinthia and Hungary, difcharges itfelf 
into the Danube near Erdoed or Teittoburgum. At its 
Entrance Hungary, it is joined by the long River 
Mur •, but a great Way before that, even near its 
Source, it is a confiderable River. The Save, the fe- 
cond noble River on that Side, has its Spring in Ca- 
rinthia, and being augmented by the Acceffion of many 
other Rivers, after a Courfe of three hundred Miles, 
joins with the Danube near Belgrade. It is a very beauti- 
ful Stream even at Crainburgh {Carnodunum) an hand- 
fome Town not far diftant from the Hcad-fpring ; 
which is fo confiderably enlarged afterwards, that it 
contains feveral remarkable Hands, as that of Metubaris, 
on the Weft-fide of Sirmium, and that of Sejfeck {Segejli- 
ca) near Zagahia, whereupon was, anciently built a ftrong 
Fortrefs, unto which the Romans tiled to carry their 
Provifions, and other Neceftaries from Aquileia, and fo 
by Land to Nauportus, for the Ufe of their Forces in 
thefe Provinces. Into the fertile Plains between thefe 
two Rivers, viz. the Drave and the Save, Solyman the 
Magnificent retired from before Vienna, and fo farther 
to Belgrade. On the North-fide of Hungary are the Ri- 
vers rifing from the Carpathian Hills, which are the 
Boundaries betwixt that Kingdom and Poland, viz. the 
River Gran, which falls into the Danube over-againft 
Gran or Strigonium ; the River Vagus, or Waag, which 
joins with the Danube near Comorrah : It is generally 
conceived to equal the Po in Italy : This I am fure of, 
that at Friejiadt (above fifty Miles before it runs into 
the Danube) it is already a confiderable Scream, and has 
a long Bridge over it *, and another very near to its Source 
at Trenfchin, a handlome Town, famous for thirty two 
Springs of hot and Mineral Waters. Befides thele, that 
great and famous River the Danube paffes through Hun- 
gary, not any one Province having fo large a Share of 
this River, as this Kingdom : For taking this River 
from the City cfi Vim \n Suabia, (where it begins to be 
navigable) it paffes by Ingoljiadt, Ratisbon, Straubing, 
Pajfau, Lintz, and Vienna, unto Presburgh from whence 
it continues its Courfe for at leaft three hundred Miles 
through Hungary, before it comes to Belgrade. Not to 
mention here its fmoother- Paffage along the Shores of 
Servia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, and Moldavia, and its Di- 
vifion into many Mouths, by which, after it has re- 
ceived into its Channel above fixty great Rivers, and, 
by a modeft Computation, kept its Courfe for fifteen 
hundred Miles, it difcharges into the Eaxine or Black 
Sea j thence it is vifible, that in refpe6l of its differenc 
Parts, it might well be mentioned by a double Name 
by the Geographers, viz. by that oFDanubitts, and IJler. 
Strabo afcribes that Name unto it below its Catara6l, 
or "Water- fall, near Axiopolis, in the Inferior Mcefta, 
or Bulgaria ; whereas Appian, and, moft modern Au- 
thors, begin it, at its Confluence with the Save, near 
Belgrade. 
Befides thefe large Rivers, it has divers others, Fluvii 
non ignobiles, as Pliny very juftly ftiles them, viz. The 
Sarvizza, or Orpanus, rifing near Efperies, {Vefprinium) 
and paffing by Stulweiffenburgh {Alba Regalis) falls into 
the Danube. The River kValpo, or Vulpanus, which ha.s 
its Rife near a Town of the fame Name ; we pafs’d 
over it by kValcovar, and the River Bofneth, or Bacun- 
thus, which empties itfelf into the Save not far from old 
Sirmium, 
2 . Moft of thefe great Rivers are covered with long 
Bridges. 
