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Dr. B R o w N e’5 Travels 
Book II. 
1 . A FT ER having taken a View of feveral 
/ m Places about the City of Vienna., I made 
a Journey to Venice on Horfeback, for 
X the Conveniency of flaying at a Place, or 
o-oinc^ out of the Road at Pieafure. The firft Place of 
Note^we faw was Baden., four German Leagues from Vi- 
enna., a walled Town, feared near a Branch of Mount 
Cetius^ the common Boundary of Noricum and Pannonia. 
Near the City paffes a River call’d Swechet, which a- 
bout a German League from Vienna falls into the Danube. 
it has three Churches, that of the At'Min Friars, of our 
Lady., and Sr. Stephen. But what makes this Place moft 
remarkable, are its nine Baths, two whereof are within 
the Town, five without the Wall, and two beyond the 
before-mentioned Rivulet. 
I'he Duke'' s- Bath., being the chief and by much the 
largeft, is twenty Foot Iquare, in the Middle of a Houfe 
of the fame Figure built over it : The Vapours pafs 
through a wooden Tunnel at the Top, but the Water 
is carried in at one Corner of the Bath, near the Bot- 
tom, by wooden Pipes, under the Town- Wall from the 
Spring-head, which rifes not far thence to the Weftward. 
The Springs of all the other Baths are conveyed into 
them through Holes of the Plancher, they being on all 
Sides cover’d with Wainlcot. The Water is generally 
tranfparent, inclining fomething to a Blue, and makes the 
Skin appear pale, like the Smoak of Brimftome : It 
turns Metals black in a few Minutes, except Gold fthe 
Colour of which it heightens,) but the Coin of the 
Country (which is a Mixture of Copper and Silver,) it 
turns in an Inflant from a White, into a dark Yellow, 
which however foon after turns black. 
The Water gives a delicious green Colour to the 
Plants it walhes, and fometimes leaves a Scum upon 
them, of a Purple mix’d with white. Near the Spring- 
head it has a great Refemblance to the Sulphur River 
between Tvvoli and Rome., but its Scent is not fo nau- 
feous, nor does it incruftate its Banks as that does. 
This Spring- head is worth the Obfervation of a curi- 
ous Traveller, in Regard it rifes under a rocky Hill, 
into which is cut an arche,d Paffage of forty Yards 
Length, through which I paffed, and found it as hot as 
a Stove, occafioned by the hot Spring-Water running 
under it, (like that of Lritola and Baja) the greateil 
Part of this Cave being incrufiated on the Tops with a 
white Subfiance, which towards the Entrance becomes 
harder and flronger. I had fome of the Pipes which 
conveys the Bath-Water opened ; and from the Upper 
Part of thefe Pipes took off a good Quantity of Pow- 
der like Flower of Brimftone fublimated ; whereas no- 
thing like it was found in the lowermoft Parts of the 
fame Pipes. I dropp’d Oleum Sulphuris per Campanam 
into this Water, which it received without the leaf! Agi- 
tation : But the Oleum Tariari per dtliquium dropp’d in- 
to it, caufed an Ebullition, as in the making of Lartar 
Vitr'iolate. 
The (id) Bath within the Wall is call’d. Our Ladfs 
Bath., being about twelve Foot broad, and twenty four 
in Length, and one End of it under a Church of the 
fame Name. This feems to be more impregnated with 
Sulphur than the rett, and is bluer, leaving a yellow 
Flower upon the Boards, as the reft do a white. The 
fgd) is the New Bath without the Gate. The ("4th j the 
Jewe Bath, having a Partition in the Middle to fepa- 
rate the Men from the Women. The f5th) St. John‘s 
Bath, of a triangular Figure. The ('6th) the Beggars 
Bath *, fo fnallovv, that they are forced to be drawn in 
it. The (yih) is the Bath of the Holy Crofs, about 
two Fathoms Iquare, intended for the Clergy) The 
J8th) St. Petef^^ Bath, the Waters of which are greener 
than the reft. The (gtK) is the Sour Bath, fee about 
with Stone Balafters, with a fair Cupolo and Lanthorn 
on the Top. The Water of it is very tranfparent, and 
will colour Money black without touching it ; but 
if once cold, will not change the Colour of Me- 
tals although they be boil’d in it. The hotteft of t;hefe 
B iths reach not the Heat of the Queen’s Bath in Eng- 
land. They ufe no Guides here, but dired themfeives 
■with a fliort turn’d Staff. 
2. A Captain in the Emperor’s Service prefented me 
with a Gempskugel, which is laid to be an Excrefcence 
upon the Liver of a Rupicapra, or wild Goat, in the 
Mountains of Tyrol, to which they attribute a fignal 
Vertue in the Difeafes of the Liver, malignant Fevers 
and the Plague itfelf. The Soldiers of thefe Parts make 
great Account of it, being poffefs’d with an Opinion, 
that it renders them invulnerable for two Hours after 
they have taken it. From hence I travelled on to New- 
ftadt, one of the moft confiderable Cities of Jufiria : 
It is of a fquare Figure, having a Piazza in the middle • 
it has four Gates, three whereof are to be feen from the 
Piazza. St. Jamesh Church has two Steeples in the Front. 
The Emperor has a large fquare Caftle here, having a 
Tower on each Corner, which, as well as the greatefl: 
Part of the Town, is to be feen at a great Diftance 
its Situation being in a low marfhy Ground encom- 
pafs’d with a Ditch and a double Wall. Here Count 
Peter Serini, and Frangipani, the Heads of the late in- 
tended Rebellion in Hungary, were beheaded. 
From hence we went on through the Plains towards 
Mount Simeron (Part of Mount Cetius,) upon the Top 
whereof you fee a great Heap of Stones," which make 
the Boundary betwixt Aiidri'a and Styr'ia the Afcent of 
it is very rocky, and fo fteep, that twenty four Horfes, 
or Oxen, are fcarce able to draw up a Coach with Safety. 
In our Way we paffed by Newkirckel, where is a Chapel 
with a little red Pinnacle, built, as they fay, by an Eng- 
lijh King, and lodged that Night at Schotwein, or Schadt- 
zvein, a ftrong Town, fituate on the Paffage leading up 
to the Rocks betwixt the Hills ; the Houfes on the Sides 
of the Rocks being inacceflible but from the Top. This 
Town having the Mountain on both Sides, and being 
fliut up with a Gate at each End, is therefore by fome 
filled Claujlra Aujiria ; and a fmall Brook coming down 
from the Hills, paffes under the Wall of it. From 
hence we travelled to Mehrzufehlag, where they beat out 
Iron into Bars: From thence paffing by a fwift Rivulet 
call’d Murtz, to Keimburg, and by a Caftle belonging to 
the Family of Stubnberg, one of the moft ancient in 
Germany, came to Prug, or Muripons, a well built 
Town, with a fair Piazza, feated upon the River 
Mur, or Muer, a fwift large River, but not naviga- 
ble. There is another Town of the fame Name up- 
on the River Leyta, call’d Prug upon the Leyta for Di- 
ftindtion’s Sake. 
3. We went on from hence to Luheim, where the 
Staple of Iron is ; and thence to Knitelfeldt and Juden- 
burg, along the River Mur. The next Day to Hundts- 
mark and Newmark, and fo to Freifach, fuppofed by 
fome to have been Virunum, and by others Vacorium, in 
Sight of Altenhofn, the Caftle of Itrowitz, and the Caf- 
tle of Tottenbrun, which belongs to the Archbifhop of 
Saltzburg. From hence we travdi’d to St. Veit, or St. 
Faiths, {Vitapoln) formerly the Capital of Carinthia 
feated at the Confluence of the two Rivers Gian and JVu- 
nich, encompaffed with a Wall ; it has fix Churches, and 
a handfome Piazza, in which ftands a noble Fountain, 
the Bafon being of white Marble cut out of one Stone, 
five Fathom in Circumference, which was brought hi- 
ther from Saal, or Zolfeldt, a Place near it, abounding 
with Roman Antiquities, of which this is one. 
In Sight of this City are four confiderable Hills, viz. 
that of St. Veit, St. IJlrick, St. Laurence, and St. Helena, 
with a Chapel upon each of them ; to all which, upon a 
certain Day in the Year, the Inhabitants, for thirty Eng- 
lijh Miles round, come in Pilgrimage on Foot. We 
had here the Diverfion of a Latin Comedy at the Fran- 
eifeans Convent j it being then in May, we found the 
higher Hills covered with Snow, whereas the lower were 
very green, and full of Fir and Larch-Trees. Many 
of the Inhabitants here are troubled with hard Tumours 
in their Throats, fome as big as their Heads {Struma-‘ 
tlci,) which they are obliged to cover in cold Weather, 
when they are much difcolour’d. There is an Hofpital 
without the City for thofe, as well as fome others that 
are Blind, Dumb, and Changelings. We obferved how- 
ever, that the better Sort of People7 who ufe a good 
Diet, were feldom troubled with this Diftemper -, though 
their 
