Chap. V. and t)efcription ^HuNGAR-Vi- 7®^ 
Brid ges. The Bridge of Boats over the Danube^ betwixt 
Strigonium and Barchan, is the firft upon this River afcel* 
you come ^rom Vienna. I faw alfo the Ruins of a Stone- 
bridge, upon the Shore of Sr. Andrew*^ Ifland^ by Viro- 
^ichitz ; but the Turks now-a-days negledl thofe Bridges, 
inftead of which they make Uie of Bridges of Boats, 
which they find more ufefulj and contrive fo conveniently, 
hat they may with Eafe open a Paffage for Veffels that 
come that Way. Such a Bridge of Boats is betwixt 
Buda and Pejl, over the Danube, being above half a 
Mile long *, and if Sigifmund had lived to effedt his De- 
fign of building a Stone Bridge in that Place, no 
Bridge in Eurofe could, in all Probability, have com- 
pared with it. 
Colocza, formerly an Archbifhop’s See, has alfo a 
Bridge ; and near Walcovar is another over the River 
Walpo. But the Bridge of EJj'eck (anciently Murfa) built 
partly over the Drave, and partly over the low marfhy 
Grounds and Fens, juftly challenges the Precedency be- 
fore the reft. It is five Miles long, with Towers upon 
it at each Quarter of a Mile, being handfomely railed 
on both Sides, and fuftained by large Piles of Wood, 
nine or ten in a Rank for each Arch. Count Nicholas 
Serini burnt that Part of it which was built over the 
Drave in the laft Turkifh War, inftead of which, the 
Turks have laid a Bridge of Boats a little below the 
other, which I pafs'd in 1669. Here it was the un- 
fortunate King Lewis of Hungary engaged with the 
Turks under Solyman, which coft .him his Life. In an- 
cient Times there were likewife many Bridges over that 
Part of the Danube, known generally by the Name of 
lAer. Darius King of Perfta made a Bridge of Boats 
over that Mouth of the Ifter called OJiium Sacrum : And, 
according to Nicephorus, Confiantine built a Stone-bridge 
over it ; but that admirable Bridge built by the Em- 
peror Adrian, (if we may give Credit to Dion the Hif- 
torian) furpafs’d all the reft. Some of its Ruins are to 
this Day to be feen near Severin, about twenty Hunga- 
fian Leagues from Belgrade. It confifted of twenty 
Piles of fquare Stone of one hundred Foot high, befides 
the Foundation of fixty Foot broad, the Diftance be- 
twixt each of them being one hundred and feventy Foot, 
and joined by Arches with this infeription : 
PROVIDENTIA AUG. 
VERE PONTIFICIS VIRTUS ROMANA 
QUID NON DOMAT .? SUB JUGUM ECCE .? 
RAPITUR ET DANUBIUS. 
And for an everlafting Memorial, many Coins were 
itamp’d in Silver with this Infeription, DANUVIUS. 
3. Not any River, that I know of, has fuch large and 
well-peopled Iftands as the Danube ; as the Ifle of St. 
A^tdrewh, betwixt Vicegrad and Vacia : Another lies a 
little below Buda, againft the Weft-fide of which ftands 
Adorn, lorty Miles long, and containing many Villages; 
another oppofite to Mohatz, and another at the Conflu- 
ence of the Drave and the Danube, and another new 
one near Belgrade, where forty Years ago there was not 
the leaft Footfteps of an Iftand to be feen : And if the 
River Leyta be the Boundary of Aujiria, the Ifle of 
Schutz {Infula Cituorum,) excels all the others, being 
well-peopled, and full of good Villages, befides divers 
confiderable Towns, fuch as Gomorrah, Samarien, &c. 
Another Thing is obfervable in the Danube, that no 
River whatever, ' at fuch a Diftance from its Mouth, 
can boaft of fuch confiderable Naval Engagements as 
this ; the Emperor keeping his Gallies at Vienna, Pref- 
burg, and Gomorrah', as thQ Turks do theirs 2^1 Strigo- 
nium, Buda, Belgrade, &c. It feems not a little fur- 
prifing, when we read, that Mahomet at the Siege of 
Belgrade, appear’d upon the Danube with 200 Gallies, 
and other arm’d Veffels, which were To fmartly engag’d 
by the Chriftian Fleet, that befides what were taken, the 
Turks were forc’d to fet their own Veffels on Fire, to 
prevent their falling into the Hands of the Enemy. 
The Chriftians had a Fleet of twenty four Gallies, and 
eighty other arm’d Veffels, befides Tenders and Ships 
of Burthen, at the Siege of Buda : And when Solyman 
the Magnificent lay before Vienna^ the Imperial Admiral, 
Vo L. II. N 9 121, 
Wolfgang Hodder, did a fignal Piece bf ' Service with 
his Veffels ; for coming out of Presburg, he funk the 
Turkijh Veffels, which tarried the heavy Cannon, in- 
tended for the Battering the Walls. Hungary is alfo 
furnifh’d with ftVeral confiderable Lakes, as the Lake 
Balaton, or Platfee, as they call it, (the Volcrea of the 
Ancients) extending a great Length between Efperies 
and the River Drave, being guarded with feveral F’orts, 
which have proved of great Ufe againft' the incurfions 
of the Turks. The Newjidler-Sti, being feven German, 
Leagues long, and three broad, having borrow’d its 
Name from the adjacent Town of Newfidel, a hand- 
fome Place, fituate upon a Hill, with a fmall fquare 
Caftle. This is the fame mentioned by Pliny, un- 
der the Name of Peifo ; and the modern Hungarians 
call it Terteu, lying juft half Way betwixt Vienna and 
Sabaria. 
4. The vaft Plain of Pampus, in Paraguay, in Ame- 
rica, is famous for its Extent, being 2000 Miles long ; 
I remember that famous Sea-Captain, Mr. afterwards Sir 
"John Narborough, told me, that there is all low Land 
from the Plate River, to the Middle of the Streights of 
Magellan. The gfeat Plains of M.ufcovy and Poland, 
are alfo famous throughout Europe ; however, thefe are 
intermix’d with Trees, and fometimes whole Woods, 
whereas the Plains of Hungary are clear and open ; and,’ 
if compared with our Englijlo Plains, as of Salijbury, 
Lincoln, and Newmarket, exceed them as far as a full- 
grown Man does a Child ; fuch are the Plains of Au- 
firia icom Vienna io Nioimt Simmaren, upon the Fron- 
tiers of Styria. I myfelf travelled from Vienna to Bel- 
grade, through one continued Plain, for 400 Miles, 
without any Eminencies, except one inconfiderabie 
Wood near Bacna and Shilberg, beyond Dotis : And 
this Plain taken from its firft Beginning, viz. at Mount 
Kalenburgh, {Getius,) two German Leagues Eaftward 
from Vienna, and fo beyond Belgrade, along the North- 
fide of the Danube, to the very Frontiers of Wallachia; 
exceeds by much that renowned Paffage from Labor to 
Agra in the Indies. It is true. Upper Hungary has Abun- 
dance of Woods and Hills, yet are thefe intermingled 
with large Plains. The Levdnefs of Hungary proves a 
confiderable Convenieney for Travellers, who are car- 
ried in open Chariots, carrying two Men befides the 
Driver, drawn by two or three, and fometimes four 
Horfes a breaft. Hungary \vee=> moxo. large Cities upon 
the Danube than any other Province ; for among the 
ten confiderable Cities which are feated from Vim unto 
Belgrade, four, and thofe very large Ones, belong to' 
LIungary, viz. Presburg, Strigonium or Gran, Buda, and 
Belgrade ; unto which if you add Peft, it makes up the 
Fifth.' 
5. All the Rivers and Lakes of this Country furnifli 
them with vaft Quantities of Fifh ; The River Thejje is 
fo famous for its Plenty of Fifh, that they have a com- 
mon Saying, Thai one Part in three confifls of Fifh. 
And the Budziack, which falls into the Theyfije near Tockay, 
is fo full of Fifh, that the Country People fay, Lt fmells 
of Fijh ', being to be underftood of the dry Summer' 
Seafon, when its Waters are very low ; though (as I 
was credibly inform’d by a certain Ofticerj it is thirty 
Fathoms broad, and 8 f deep ; but being of this Fi- 
gure V, he told me, it could not be well fifla’d with 
Nets. The Danube alfo , affords a plentiful Share of 
Fifhes, as Trouts, Perches, Garps, the largeft and finefb 
lever met with ; and befides many others, a certain 
Fifli call’d Goppen, or Capita i a BijeuYfie, a kind of 
Lamprey, a Grundel, or fpotted kind of Cobites, with 
fix Beards, two fliort, and four longer ; another Fifli, 
exceeding in Bignefs a Pike, call’d Scheyden, the SFu- 
rus of Gefner, and at certain Seafons gfeat Numbers 
of Hufones, call’d by them Haufons, which are fome- 
times twenty Foot long, a delicious Fifli, not unlike a 
Sturgeon. There are fet Fifliing-places, and peculiar 
Store-FIoufes for that Ule upon this River, the higheft 
thereof is above Gomorrah, in the Ifle of Schutz ; but 
the-greateft Plenty of Fifli is near Kilia m Wallachia, 
where they take and fak many Sorts of Fill" coming 
out of the Euxine Sea, and fend them into the ad- 
jacent Countries, Thefe Rivers afford alfo great 
pH' Plenty 
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