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Book were both the £{Fe£ls oF that great and generous 
Turn of Mind, which firft put him upon Travelings 
not any mercenary Defign of Advantage, or a Scheme 
of making his Court to any great Man by a flattering 
t)edication. 
We cannot help, therefore, reading his Book with 
Satisfa6lion, becaufe, on the one Hand, we are certain 
that his Labours had no other Objeft than the Difcovery 
of the Truth, and that he was a Man of too much 
Parts and too much Learning to be impofed upon him- 
felf j befides, in the Courfe of his Narration it appears, 
that he fpared no Pains, and grudged no Expence 
in order to obtain an exaft Acquaintance with what- 
ever he thought it worth his While to enquire about y 
and as he took Time fufficient to examine all Things 
carefully, and to fet them down circumftantially while 
he was abroad, fo he did not haften the Publication of 
his Book at home, till he had thoroughly digefted as 
well as reviewed his large Colledion of Materials. In 
a Word, he had all the Diligence of Sir Philip Skippon, 
all the Accuracy of Mr, Ray, and feems to have had a 
more extenfive and penetrating Genius than either of 
them, of which we Iball receive indubitable Proofs in 
the Courfe of this SedHon. Thus much I thought due 
to the Author’s Charader, as well as requifite to excite 
the Readers Attention, which having awaken’d by this 
fhort and I hope not improper Introdudion, we will 
now proceed to the Dodor’s Narrative, as near as may 
be in his own Words. 
2. After having pafs’d the Winter at Vienna, I met 
with a fair Opportunity to fee the Grand Seignior’s 
Court, which then, and a confiderable Time before, re- 
fided at the ancient and famous City of Larijfa in 'PheJ- 
jaly. As I do not pretend to give you the Names of 
all Places through which I pafs’d, fo on the other Hand 
you will find mentioned fome which are not to be 
found in Maps, at lead not in any that ever I met with. 
Between Vienna and Presburgh, the firft Place worth my 
peculiar Obfervation, was the Town of Petronel, and 
Haymhurg Hill and Caflk : The firft is fuppofed to be 
the old Carnuntum, one of the ftrong Holds of the 
ancient Pannonians, who, one hundred and feventy 
Years before our Saviour’s Birth, bravely repulfed the 
Romans here, but were forced to fubmit to the Power 
of Augujius, who made it a Roman Colony, and the 
Station of tire Legio XIY. Gemina, and of the ClaJJis 
IJlrica % and by Degrees arrived to that Pitch of Great- 
nefs, that it became the capital City of all Pannonia Su- 
perior, comprehending all that Trad on the South Bank 
of the River Danube, wherein now are Haymburgh, 
Dutch Altenburgh, and Petronelli, Here I met with Va- 
riety of Medals, Infcriptions, and the Ruins of a mod 
noble Aquedud, and the Remnants of a dately Fabrick, 
which I thought might have belonged to a Temple of 
'Janus, but is generally fuppofed to have been a trium- 
phal Arch, ereded in Memory of a Vidory obtained 
by 'Tiberius, in the ninth Year of our Saviour, over the 
Pannonians and Dalmatians. Petrus Lambecius has, be- 
fides other Antiquities of this Place, given a Draught of 
the one Side thereof, and o-f the back Part I took a 
Draught myfelf. In this Place it was that the Emperor 
Antoninus Philofaphus, when engaged in a War with the 
Marcomanni or Moravians, redded for three Years, and 
died Vienna {ov Vindobona.), And here Severus was 
ele^Fed Emperor by the German Legions. But this 
great City was laid defolate by Attila the Hunn, there 
being nothing remaining now, where the old Carnu- 
turn flood, but fome ruinous Foundations of the Houfes 
and Streets, fcarce difcoverable by the Eye. 
Of Roman there have been, and dill are, found 
fuch Qiiantities, that even the Peafants bring them to 
Sale, of whom I bought a good Number ; and 1 re- 
member,- that Mr. Donallan z.x\ Irijh Gentleman, my Fel- 
low-Traveller, as we were viewing the Ruins of the an- 
cient Foundations, druck by chancy a Silver Coin with 
his Foot out of the Earth. 
g. Presburgh, Pofonium and Pifonium, is pleafantly 
feated on the North-fide of the Danube, ten German 
Leagues to the Fad of Vienna,, now the capital City 
©f Hungary, under the Emperor’s Jurifdiaion, and. 
Book H. 
fince the Surprifing of Buda by the Turks, the Place of 
Convention of the Edates of that Kingdom, and fince 
the Lofs of Gran (Strigoninm) the Metropolitan City, 
Its Cadle is very noble and dately, built of white Stone*, 
on the Top of a Hill, where is now/ kept the fo much 
edeem’d Hungarian Crown. The Garden of the Arch- 
biliiop is exceeding fair, the Walks, Grotto’s, Laby- 
rinths, and Fifhponds, very noble, and the -Figure of 
Jeronymo, well worth the Obfervation of a Traveller. 
In the Cathedral Church is interr’d the Body of Sc, 
Johannes Eleemofynarius, Bidiop of Alexandria^ Part of 
this Church is in the Podeffion of the Jefuits ; the Lu- 
therans have likewife a handfome Church here. 
4. Raah or Javrinum, a drong Frontier City, is feat- 
ed at the Confluence of the Rivers Raab^ the Rabnits, 
and Danube. Jc has two Bridges, one laid over a 
double Ditch, leading towards Auftria, and the other 
towards Stulweiffenhtrg, .or Alba Regalis. Its Fortifi- 
cation confids of feven Badions and four -Cavaliers' or 
Mounts. I . The Cadle Balfion, upon which dands the 
Governor’s Palace. 2. T\\t Water :Bafiion, on the Side 
of the Danube. 3. The Bajlion of the Holy Hill. 4.T'hc 
Middle Bajiion, to the Fad on the Land-fide. 5. The 
New Bajiion. 6 . The hnperial Baftion and, 7. The 
Hmtgarian Ba[Uon, facing the 'Kwer Raab. Here the 
Turkijh Governor was kill’d, when the Chridians fur- 
prized this City. It lies in an open and plain Country, 
there being no Eminency near ,it, except a -fmall Hill, 
which is undermined, ready to be blown up in Cafe of 
the Approach of an Army, for which Reafon alfo a 
Spy Tower is built at fome Didance, to give timely 
Notice in Cafe of Need of -an approaching Enemy. 
Sinan Bajfa ther Turki/h General, under the Reign of 
Achmet lll, after having lod a vad Number of mSi be- 
fore this Place, and 12,000 in one Alfauk, took it by 
Compofition, by the Treachery of Count Bar deck the 
Governor, who paid for it with his Head, But in a 
few Years after was recover’d by the Chridians, who 
furprized it in the Night-time, under the Conduft of 
Count Swartzenburgh and Count Palji, who put all the 
Turks to the Sword. At Raab and Gomorrah we were 
fhown fevcral Sorts of Warlike Indruments, viz. a 
Morning-Star, as they call it, being a Club fet round 
with Spikes 5 ufed in the Defence of Breaches, and in 
affaulting of Towns ; Earthen-pots, fill’d with dinking 
and combudible Materials, to throw in among the 
Enemy ; a Lehn Brader, or Plank, fet with FIoo£, to 
be fix’d to the Out-fide of the Works, cover’d di^htly 
with Earth ; a Werf Kugel, or Kind of Hand-Gra- 
nadoe j a Spanijh Ritter, or Cheval de Frife, to be faden- 
ed in the Earth, to keep off the Horfe, provided with 
long Iron Spikes on ail Sides. At this Place the Turkijh: 
Chiaufes or Meffengers are obliged to day to receive their 
Difpatches, the Court of Vienna being much peder’d with 
them before that Order, as they were fent continually 
with fome infignificant Meffage or other from the Go- 
vernors of the Turkijh Frontier Places, for the Prefents 
Sake, which they exped at their Departure. 
5. Gomorrah, Crumenum or Comar onium, is a large 
and drongly fortified Place, feated at the Ead End of 
the Schutz, looking over the Danube and Waag, 
The dronged Fort is called the Tortoife from its Figure! 
After Sinan Bajfa had made himfelf Mader of Raab, he 
was alfo for trying his Fortune againd this Town ; but 
being repulfed with great Slaughter in all his Attacks, he 
was for tempting the Fidelity of the Governor Baron 
Brown, unto whom he fent five Turks, under a Pretence 
of a Parley, with very advantageous Offers ; but this 
brave Man, though dangeroufly wounded, having fird gi- 
ven them the Hearing,caufed four to have their Heads cufi 
off, which he put upon long Pikes upon the Bulwarks, 
and fent back the fifth with this Meffage y That he 
was midaken in his Perfon, if he judged of him by 
the Treachery of Count Hardeek ^ and that he micrht 
red affured, he would live and die in the Defence of 
the Place committed to his Charge by the Emperor. In 
the innermod Cadle of Gomorrah, I law three very an- 
cient Tombs, brought thither formerly from Senia, a 
Place of Antiquity not far off, two of which having In- 
fcriptions not to bo met with in Gruier, I thought fit to 
infert here. On 
Dr. B R o w N e’j TraDeh 
