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Tables, and their Bafon and Cloth by the Wall, de- 
clare them to be Germans. The Bridge itfelf is alfo 
half Italian, Dutch, one Parc being built of Stone, 
and the other of great Trees laid over, after the Ger- 
man Failiion of making Bridges. Between Venfone and 
Ponteha there are many great Cafcata^s, or Falls of 
Waters ; but of feveral Faffages of the Alps, this feem- 
ed unto me the beft and moft eafy. In thefe moun- 
tainous Places I was entertain’d with ftrange Stories of 
the Snow, which cover thefe Hills in the Winter ; as 
how many Pikes Length the Snow was deep in fome 
Places ; how round the Country would look when all 
the. craggy Rocks were cover’d ; how a Snowball, 
thrown down from a Mountain, would fo gather and 
augment in the Fail, as to do great Mifchief in the 
Valley ; and that if the fmalleft Bird ihould but fcrape 
with her Foot at the Edge of an high Hill, that little 
Beginning might fo increafe in the Defcenr, upon a 
Thaw, as to overwhelm an Houfe at the Bottom. 
13. From hence, by Terms and Tirl, unto Villach or 
Villack, an handfome Town, and one of the chiefeft in 
Carinthia ; but before I came to Villach, I went to fee 
the natural Baths, which were not much out of the 
Way, at the Foot of an Hill, about an Englijh Mile 
from the Town, and in good Efteem. There are two 
clear fulphureous Baths, but very gently warm, and have 
an Acid, and no unpleafant Tafte. The Bottom is not 
planchered nor paved, but hath its own natural Spring 
and Settlement with it ; yet into one there is a hot 
Spring let in, which ariles by it. They are large, and 
have S^tairs to defcend into them, with little Rooms of 
V/ood about them for Accommodation : They are co- 
ver’d over, and they bathe in them cloathed with Shirt 
and Drawers, as in Aujlria. Not far from hence is a 
Lake called the OJfiacker-See, Ivom OJfiack, a Town upon 
the Side thereof, and is one of the moft confiderable 
Lakes in Carinthia, there being befides it, thefe v/hich 
are remarkable, the White Lake, the Millfiatter, the 
Werd, and the Forchien. This Lake doth not only 
abound in Fifti, but affords great Plenty of Offiacker 
Nuts, which the People eat, and fome make Bread of, 
which notwithftanding, upon Examination, I found to 
be no other than very large Seeds of Tribulus Aquaticus 
or Water Gallchorps. From Villach I foon came to the 
Werd-See, and keeping it continually on my Right 
Hand, I travelled by the Side of it till I came to Cla- 
genfurte, and then paffed again to St. Veits, where I 
met Mr. Donellan, from whom, upon my former De- 
fires to him, I received an Account of the great Lead 
Mines in Upper Carinthia, at Bleyherg, where they have 
worked eleven hundred Years, and the Pits are deep. 
Federnus Stollen or Cunictdus is an hundred and ten Fa- 
thoms deep in the Earth, and the Hills fo high about 
it, that upon the Melting of the Snow in the Spring, 
there is often much Hurt done, the Snow rolling and 
falling in fuch vaft Heaps, that nothing is able to re- 
fift it ; fo that in the Year 1654, it fell fo vehemently, 
that it deftroyed and carried away fixteen Houfes. He 
prefented me alfo with many handfome natural Curio- 
fities, colleded by him in thofe Parts ; one of which, 
among the reft, I cannot but mention, which was a 
rich, large, fair Piece of natural Cinnabar, found in 
Crewaltar, in the Foreft of Cre, two German Miles from 
St. Veits, in the Lordfliip of Ofterwitz, where there 
hath been great Quantities found out j for the Herr von 
Standach about thirty Years ago, as he was hunting in 
this Foreft, being thirfty, and laying down to drink 
out of a Stream, which runs from the Top of the Hill, 
he perceived the Stream to be full of Cinnabar ; but 
fince it hath been fo diligently fearched after, that 
without working and digging for it there is none to be 
found. From St. Viets I continued my Journey by 
Friefach, where formerly there, was a Gold Mine, and 
then hy Netvmark,Hiindfmark,Peltfolz, Knitelfeldt, Luihm, 
Prug, Kemberg^ Mehrz-u Schlag, Schadtwien, Netvkirc- 
kel, Neivjladt, Solinaw, Trajkirchell, Hew dor ff, to Vi- 
mna. 
14. This my Return from Venice to Vienna, about 
three hundred and fifty Italian Miles, was the moft quiet 
Journey I ever made j for not meeting with good Com- 
pany, I perform’d it alone, and upon one Horfe' ^ and 
although there are feveral Nations, and no lefs than 
four Languages fpoken upon this Road^, yet I met with 
no Difturbance from any, nor did any one ask from 
whence I came, or whither I would go ; no Trouble as 
to Bills of Health, and good Accommodations in the 
Inns at an eafy Rate. They are, for the moft part, a 
plain People, make good Soldiers, little mutinous, but 
obedient to Commands, and hardy, and are of good 
Ufe and Service unto the Emperor. In my Travels in 
Germany, I feldom failed to meet with Jews ; but in 
this Journey I met with none, or fuch as I could not 
well diftinguifti ; for though there were then whole 
Villages of Jews in AuHria, yet they were prohibited 
in Styria, and feverely banifhed out of Carinthia *, fo 
that for thofe Jews, who travelled between Venice and 
Vienna, the Emperor difpenfes with them as to their 
Ruff, and the Venetians as to their Red Hat. I went ♦ 
this Journey when the Sun was in Cancer, in the hotteft: 
Time of the Year, and Heat was very offenfive to me 
in the great Plains of Friuli and Aujlria, but in the 
Alps it was much more moderate, and the Country was 
all green and pleafant *, when, on the contrary, all the 
Grafs in Aujlria was burnt up by the Sun ; and if there 
were not a continual Breeze about the Middle of the 
Day, upon all great Plains, efpecially in Southern 
Countries, the Heat would be intolerable ; and I 
could not but take Notice, how pleafantly the 
the poor Peafants in the Alpine Countries diverted 
thenifelves in the Fields, and after their Labour would^ 
be lively and brifk, fometimes play at Cards with Cards 
of a Span long, fuch as they have in thofe Countries ; 
while the rich Countrynien in Aujlria were faint, and 
gafping for Breath ; nor did it any Thing avail them, 
that Aujlria was more Northern than Styria or Carin- 
thia, for there may be as much Difference as to the 
Temperature of the Air, as to Heat and Cold in one 
Mile, as in ten Degrees of Latitude, and he that would 
cool and refrefh himfelf in the Summer, had better go 
up to the Top of the next Hill, than remove into a far 
more Northern Country. I have been ready to freeze 
on the Top of a Hill, and in an Hour’s Time after 
have fuffered as great Inconvenience from the Heat of 
the Valley at the Riftng of the Sun ; I have been up- 
on a Hill with a clear Sky and good Weather, and - 
have feen a Valley encompaffed with Mountains, and 
covered over with Clouds much below us the Sun fhin- 
ing upon the upper Part of the Clouds made them ap- 
pear like fine Down or Wool, and made the fofteft, 
iweeteft Lights and Shadows imaginable ; afterwards, 
when we defeended into this Valley under the Clouds, 
we had no fuch pleafant Profpeft, but were rained upon 
the moft Part of the Day. In that hot Country of Ara- 
bia, Travellers complain moft of the Cold they fuffer 
in palling the Hills. The Mountains in Italy and Spain, 
are, fome of them covered with Snow and Ice all 
the Summer long. I have heard that Mount Atlas is fo 
alfo, from Dr. Butler who lately travelled in thofe Parts, 
and from others, when in Great-Britain there is no fuch 
Thing. At London we have Winters for the moft Part 
favourable ; when Captain James, who went to difeover 
the North-weft Palfage, and to fearch if there were 
any Communication between the Atlantick Ocean and 
the South-Sea, in the Northern Part of America, as 
there is in the Southern, fuffered more Hardfhip in the 
fame Degree of Latitude, than the nine Englifhmen, 
who were left all the Winter in Greenland j and Baffin, 
on the contrary, upon the fame Defign, had a pleafant 
Voyage in an open Sea, and met with Inhabitants upon 
the Shore, till he came within nine Degrees of the Pole. 
But I fliall wander too far out of the Way, and there- 
fore will put an End ^^o this Difeourfe. 
1 5, In the laft Folio Edition of Dr. Browne*s Tra- 
vels, diere are added, his Journey to Cologne in 1673, 
on Purpofe to view the Baths of Aix la Chapelle, and 
to examine the mineral Waters of the Spa \ as alfo his 
Travels through Italy, which were firft made, and which 
had coft him twelve or fourteen Years to digeft and 
put in Order. It may not be amifs how'ever to inform 
the Reader, that in thefe he fhewed himfelf a very 
learned 
