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Plenty of Water-Fowl in the Winter, and among 
the reft Pelicans^ but I never faw any Swans upon the 
’Danube. 
6 . The Land here affords the like Plenty of Pro- 
vifions of all Sorts, but efpecially of Bread and Wine, 
their Bread being as good as any in Europe^ made light 
by kneading for a confiderable Time ; and that fo cheap, 
that you may buy as much here for Two-pence, as we 
generally do for Twelve-pence in England-^ the fame 
being to be met with in the Eurkijh DommiGm in thefe 
Parts. Their Grapes are both large, and of a lufcious 
Flavour, among which thofe of Virovichitz., near Vacia^ 
excel the reft ; their Vines are very noble, witnels 
thofe of Eockayy v/hich are in great Requeft •, and the 
pleafant and rich Wines of Sirmia^ in the Southern 
Parcs of Hungary ; the Vines of this Province having 
been planted firft by the Emperor Probus^ near Mount 
AlmuSy or Arpataro. At Vienna are no lefs than thirty 
Sorts of Wines to be fold. Neither are the Hungari- 
ans at all negligent in improving their Grounds by Hus- 
bandry. I remember that in February I faw every Night 
great Fires in the Country, occafioned by the Burning 
of the Stubble and old Grafs, which rendred the Ground 
more fertile againft the next Seafon. Inftead of our 
Barns, or Hay, and Cornftacks, they ufe deep- and fpa- 
cious Caves under Ground, whither they retire alio 
with their Families, in Cafe of a fudden Inroad from 
the Eurks or Tartars. They have vaft Plenty of Hares 
and Deer, as alfo of all Sorts of Poultry, Partridges, 
Pheafants, Cfr. vaft Store of Sheep, having in fome 
Places long fpiral Horns, and long curPd Wool ; of 
Oxen fuch prodigious Numbers, that, according to a 
well grounded Computation, they fend to Germany^ Italy\ 
and other Parts, above ioo,coo yearly. They have 
alfo good Store of Bouffles, which are very ufeful to 
them, elpecially in ploughing fome ftiff Grounds. Nei- 
ther do they want Horfes, fome of which are pretty 
large, but generally fmall, though exceeding Iwift ; I 
faw above looo of them belonging to the Village of 
Lower Sene, or Serriay near Gomorrah. 
7. Their Language is peculiar to themfelves ; I heard 
a Minifter praying and preaching in a Church at Bitchkay 
and though he that was with me was very well vers’d in 
the Sclavoniany Germany Eurkifhy Vulgar Greek and Italiany 
yet could he not find the leaft Affinity in it, with any 
of thefe beforemention’d Languages. The fame we 
obferv’d in the Albanian Language, in the Northern 
Part of Epirus y and Weft of Mucedornay v^^herc indeed 
the Sclavonian is ufed by fome, but their own Language 
in common Converlation among themfelves, could not 
be underftood by the beft Linguifts, both Christians 
and Eurksy that travel’d along with us. Thus, in fome 
Hungary y the Sclavonian \i, much in Ufe j I 
remember that at FrieSiadt (call’d Colgotz by the Hun- 
garians) I heard them preach in Sclavonian in the Church 
of the Town, but the Francifeans preach’d 'm Hungarian. 
This Remotenefs of their Language from others, makes 
them much addidfed to foreign Languages, efpecially 
the Latiny which moil of the Gentry and Soldiery fpcak 
fluently enough, and there is fcarce a Coachman, or Foot- 
man, but what underftands as much of it as will ferve 
to make him underftood j this makes the Latin Tongue 
very ufeful through all Hungary and Eranjilvania , but 
beyond Belgrade the Sclavonian is the univerfal Language ; 
it being certain that you may travel with the German 
and Sclavonian from Hamburgh to the Frontiers of Ear- 
tary and Conjtantinople itfelf j the Sclavonian being gene- 
rally fpoken in ServiUy Bulgariay Romaniay and Part of 
Macedoniay befides in many other Parts j io that a Man 
may make Shift to pafs with this I.anguage from the 
Adriatick Shore in Dalmatia, unto the Tartarian Ocean. 
It is fcarce to be fuppos’d, that in a Country fo near 
unto, and fo much expofed to the Violences of a bar- 
barous Neighbour, I mean the Turks, there fhould be 
any Seminaries of Learning, there being no Univerfity 
in thofe Parts beyond Vienna ; and though of old they 
have had many learned Men, yet thefe had their Edu- 
cation in Foreign Parts as had of old St. Jerom, and 
St. IVLartin , and thofe, Perfons of Quality in Hungary, who 
intend to breed up their Children to Learning, fend them 
Ek Travels, Book If 
now-a-days to Vienna, Brejlau, Prague, and fome other 
Germany. At prefenc there is 2 i Gymna- 
fium, or fmall Univerfity at Schemnitz. The Hungarians 
boaft however of their once fo famous Library of Buda, 
founded by their King Matthias Cervinus, the Son of 
HunniadeSy about 200 Years ago, confiding of feveral 
Thoufands of Books, and among them many Greek 
and Latin MSS, not to be purchafed j Part of it was 
carried off into Turkey, after Solyman had furprized that 
City, and _ the choiceft thereof procured afterwards for 
the Imperial Library at Vienna, when Cufpinianus was 
Keeper thereof *, many of thefe Books being mark’d 
with the Arms of Corvinus, viz, a Grow bearing a golden 
Ring in his Beak ; thefe, with the fucceeding Additions 
of Bujbequiusy JVolfgangus Lazius, Lugger, &c. together 
with the choiceft Manuferipts brought thither by Petrus 
Lambeciusy the prefent Library-Keeper, from the Am- 
brofian Library near_ Infpruck, are Part of the 80,000 
Volumes mentioned in the Imperial Library ; of‘ which 
I had the Favour not only to fee the rareft Manuferipts, 
and other Rarities, but alfo to have feveral of the beft 
Books to my Lodgings •, and at my coming away, the 
fame learned Pcrlon prefented me with a Cataloo-’ue of 
fome hundreds of Alchemical Manuferipts, with an Of- 
fer to have any of them brought to England, or to be 
tranferibed at Vienna. There were lately about 400 
Books (the Remnants of the Corvinian Library) left at 
Buda, but carclefly kept by the Turks, and were con- 
lumed in the great Fire that happen’d there, in 1669. 
8. The Hungarians have a moft profound Veneration 
for their Crown, w'hich, they tell you, was fent to their 
King Stephen by ?opt Benedibi VIII. being admonifn’d by 
an Angelical Apparition to fend it to Stephen, and not to 
Mifca the then King of Poland, his Competitor : Hence 
it is, that they have always been fo careful to preferve if, 
as thinking the Fate of the Kingdom to depend on the 
Poffeffion or Lofs of it. Formerly it was kept in the Caftle 
of Vicegrad, but at prefent in that of Presburg. This 
Crown has alfo a moft peculiar Figure, being a very low 
Crown, with aCrofs upon it, enclofed with four Turnings 
up like Leaves, one whereof is as large as two of the 
others. As it is a hard Matter to get Sight of the Ori- 
ginal, fo I was forced to be contented with the Sight 
of the Model thereof, in the Treafury of the German 
Emperor Leopold, exadly made after the Falbion of 
the Hungarian Crown of Gold, and befet richly with 
precious Stones, perhaps richer than the Original. 
Though xE^Hungarians neither Inclination to or A- 
bilitiesfor Learning, yet have they generally been moft 
addidted to Martial Exploits, even to the Clergy, wit- 
nefs that unfortunate Battle of their King Lewis near 
Mohatz, in which fix Bifhops were flain with that Mo- 
narch. Some are of Opinion, that the famous Poet 
Ovid being recall’d from his Baniflimenc at Tomos, near 
the Euxine Sea, died at Sabaria in Hungary, in his Re- 
turn Horae j where they fay, his Tomb was found, with 
this Epitaph made by himifelf : 
Hie fitus eft vales quern Divi Cafaris ira, 
Augufti Patria cedere juffit humo. 
Snipe mifer voluit patriis fuccumbere terris, 
Sed fruftra, hunc HU fata dedere locum. 
9. In Hungary I alfo firft obferved the Pyrrhical Saltati- 
on, or warlike Way of Dancing, which the Hey dukes per- 
form by Dancing with naked Swords in their Hands, ad- 
vancing, brandiftiing, and clafhing the fame, turning, 
winding, elevating, and depreffing their Bodifes with 
fingular Adlivity, finging at the fame time to their 
Meafures, after the Manner of the Greeks. 
The great Deeds of Attila, King of this Country, 
and his numerous Armies, together with that memor- 
able Battle fought againft the Roman General Mtius, 
(who was a Myfian or Servian by Birth) in whicn 200,000 
were flain, is fufficiently famous in ancient Hiftories ; 
and how far they extended afterwards their Conquefts 
over their Neighbours, is teftified by the Banners car- 
ried at the CoronaPion of their Kings, viz. that of 
Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Gahfia, Rafcia, 
Servia, Bulgaria, Bofnia, and Ludomiria ; and it muft be 
confefs’d, to the everlafting Honour of the Hungarians, 
' that 
