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End I have heard fome Turks of Note often fay, we 
muit try our Fortunes again before Vienna •, where the 
Star and Half- moon then remain’d upon the Steeple of 
the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen^ above the Crofs *, 
and I could not, without a great deal of Grief, take 
Notice of a particular Crofs (not known to our He- 
ralds) lunated, to ,be keen in many Frontier Places, 
whereby the Inhabitants, as they teftify their Chriftiani- 
ty by the Crofs, fo they acknowledge the Turkijh Sovq~ 
reinty by the Half- moons. 
A Journey from Comomh Gomorrah, to the Mine- 
Towns in Hungary, and from thence to Vienna. 
28. Having fatisfied my Curiofity at and about Co~ 
morrahy I purfued my former Refolution of taking a 
Journey to the Copper, Silver, and Gold Mines of Hun- 
gary \ and being unwilling to take fo long a Journey 
as to Preshurg again, to bring me into the ordinary 
Road, towards them, I pitch’d upon a nearer, though 
not much frequented Paffage ; taking therefore my 
Way along the North Shore of the Ifle of Scutz^ till I 
came to th^e Confluence of the Rivers JVaag and Da- 
nube, I pafled over to Gutta, a Fortification railed fince 
the late War, in a marfhy Ground, between a Branch 
of the Danube, the Waag, and the Swartz, within a 
Mile of Newhaufel, which we plainly faw from the 
Steeple of the Church of Gutta. It had then a Fort of 
130 Men, commanded by an experienced and brave 
Officer, whofe Name was Mr. Matthias Fruwurdt. 
Their Wts, in which they will pafs the greatefl; Rivers, 
are only one Piece of Wood hollowed out. 
From hence we w'enton by way of Forchatz to Schel- 
la, where is another Fort to hinder the Incurfions of 
the T whs and Tartars, and about half a Mile from this 
Place is a certain Concavity in the Earth, which burns 
like the Solfaterra near Naples ; and fo forw'ards to 
Schinta, a large Fort which commands the River and 
the adjacent Country. It confifts of four Baftions, and 
has a Tower in the Middle. At the Gate hangs a great 
Rib, a Thigh-bone, and a Tooth, which, they fay, be- 
longed to a Giant ; but I judge them to be of an Ele- 
phant. We came afterwards to Leopoljiadt, a regular 
Fortification of fix Baftions, where the young Count de 
Zouches then commanded. Not far from hence, paf- 
fing the Rivers, we came to Friejiadt, a handfome large 
Town, but lately ruined by thtPurks. I took a Draught 
here of the Caftle and Palace belonging to Count For- 
chaiz, which was a Struefture that would have been 
thought elegant in Italy. 
The Lutheran School had been lately ruined by the 
Turks. They pay a yearly Tribute of four Pence a 
Head, whether of Men, Women, Children, Sheep, 
Oxen, or Horfes ; They are much inured to Hardfhip, 
and their Women rarely marry above once. Bathing 
and Sweating naked in Stoves, with their Feet in warm 
Water, is much ufed here, as alfo Cupping and Scarri- 
fications. There were only twelve Fryars left in the 
Convent of the Francifeans, the Roman Chriftians hav- 
ing fcarce any other Priefts but Monks hereabouts. 
About fourteen Englifh Miles from hence is Banco, 
which has fifteen Baths in a low Ground near the River, 
three of which are fpoiled by the Waag, which has there 
tranlgrefs’d its ordinary Bounds. About twenty Years 
ago there were alfo hot Baths on the other Side of the 
River, but thefe are likewife fwallowed up by the over- 
flowing of the River. The Water of thefe Baths cafts 
out a white Sediment, and, tinges Copper and Silver in 
an Inftant as black as Ink. Not far oft" is a Quarry of 
Stone, and feveral Chalk Veins, which being of all 
Sorts of Colours except Green, and curioufly mix’d or 
marbled, was very pleafing to the Eye. It being the 
1 8th of March, the cold Weather hinder’d us from ba- 
thing in io open a Place, though we faw feveral Wo- 
men and Children in them, and our Charioteer bathed 
himfelf in one of them at Midnight. 
March i\ . Some Mufqueteers having been fent us by 
Goxxnx. Zouches for our Guard, we continued our Jour- 
ney, and pairing by Ripnkh, a Caftle at Docatzi, be- 
longing to Baron came the fame Night to To- 
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polchan, a Town upon the River Nitra, great Part 
whereof had been confumed by Fire in the: laft Wars. 
At Bellitz, a Mile from hence, are likewife hot Baths. 
We pafs’d the next Day by Clefch, and through a great 
Wood by Hochwife, inhabited by Germans, and came 
to Sernowitz, fituate upon the River Gran, having a 
Caftle built upon a Rock. It is tributary to the Turks, 
March 28. We pafs’d the River Gran in the Morning, 
and travelling among the Hills, came to Hodrytz, by 
which runs a rapid Stream, of great Ufe to move the 
Engines employed in the pounding, waffling, and melt- 
ing of Silver Ore. 
29. Hence we travelled over a Mountain call’d Hell, 
and fo to Schemnitz, which claims the Precedency for 
Bignefs before all the other Mine-Towns in Hungary, 
and where a great Quantity of Silver Ore is digged every 
Day. It is a well-built Town, moft of the Inhabitants 
being Lutherans, who have three very handfome Churches 
here. It has alfo three Caftles j i. The Old Caftle in the 
Town, where there is all Sorts of Wind-Mufick at Six 
in the Morning, at Twelve at Noon, and at Six at 
Night. 2. The New Caftle, built by a Lady in a Place 
where formerly the Gibbet flood. 3. On a high Peak, 
where a continual Guard is kept to difeover the Approach 
of an Enemy, in which Cafe the Signal is given by the 
Difcharge of a Culverin. The Country being very 
hilly, the Streets confequently very uneven. There are 
hereabouts very good Mines, among which thefe are the 
moft remarkable : Windfchacht-yimQ, t'ao. Trinity, 
that of St. Benedifi, St. John, St. Matthias, and another 
called the Three Kings ; but the Windfchacht and the 
Trinity are the beft and moft wTought. The Trinity- 
Mi?ie is at leaft feventy Fathoms deep, built and kept 
open with Under-Work, at a vaft Expence, the great- 
eft Part of it being in an earthy Soil. The Ore is very 
rich, and generally blue, cover’d with a white Clay, 
which gives the Streams where they work it a milky 
Tinfture, and is that Subftance, as I fuppofe, common- 
ly known by the Name of Lac Luna, or the Milk of 
the Silver. 
Some of thefe Veins run to the North, and other rich 
Veins to the N. E. If two Veins happen to crofs one 
another, they count it lucky ; fo that the Veins of Ore 
keep not the fame Point even in the fame Mine j but 
as they have no certain Way to know where they are, 
or which Way they run, fo they muft proceed by Guefs, 
and perfevere in their L.abour till they light upon the 
Veins, They don’t make ufe of the Virgula divina, or 
forked Hazel-flick to direft them (as they do in the 
Silver Mine at Friburgh in Mifnia) but dig on, accord- 
ing as they judge it moft likely to fucceed. They fhew’d 
me one Place, where they had digged fix Years toge- 
ther, when afterwards they found the Vein of Ore but 
two Fathom diftant from the Place where they firft 
began ; and they fhew’d me another Place, where they 
digg’d twelve Years before they found the Vein, which 
prov’d fo rich, that in a fliort Time they were very 
well paid over and above their Charges. I went fo far 
into this Mine, that I pafs’d quite under a Hill, and 
came our on the other Side. 
1 defeended alfo into the Windfchacht- Mine as far as the 
Water would permit me, by 300 large Steps or Stairs 
of a Ladder ; deep in the Earth I faw a large Wheel 
of thirty fix Foot Diameter, turn’d by the Fall of fub- 
terraneous Waters ; by the Help of this Wheel feveral 
Engines are moved, which pump out the Water from 
the Bottom of the Mine up to the Concavity, where 
this Wheel is fix’d. The Water which turns the Wheel, 
does not fill lower into.the Mine, but is convey’d thro* 
a Cuniculus, or a fubterraneous Paflage made for that 
Purpofe, together with the Water pumped from the 
deepeft Part of the Mine, to the Foot of a Hill, where 
it difeharges itfelf into the Valley. Befides this Wheel, 
there is another above Ground, which lies Horizontally, 
turned by twelve Horfes, which alfo ferves to pump Parc 
of the Water out of this Mine. I was told, that no 
lefs than 200 Men were employed in all the Works 
belonging to this Mine. I found fome Places very cold 
and others fo hot, that I was forced to open my Cloaths, 
which were only Linen before : It being always hoc 
where 
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