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TO THE MINES OF CREMNITZ. ,325 
rises in a mountain called Kalkberg, in the chap. 
county of Maromarus, upon the confines of Tran- 
sylvania and Russia; whence it traverses all 
Upper Hungary westward: afterwards, flow- 
ing from north to south, and receiving many 
tributary streams, especially the Marisus, before 
its junction with the Danube, it falls into that 
river, about twenty miles from Belgrade. Such 
is the astonishing quantity of the Jishes taken in 
this river, that a thousand curp have been sold 
for less than four shillings of our money: 
indeed it has sometimes happened, that the 
fishermen, wanting purchasers, have either 
fattened hogs with them, or cast them again 
into the water'. This marvellous fecundity has 
been attributed to the communication which 
the waters of the country have with the salt 
mines', -Certainly there is no part of the world 
so productive in this respect. The Bedrac, 
which falls into the Tibiscus near to Tokay, is. 
accipio." He admirandis Hungari<E Aquis, G. Whtrner, apud Rer, 
Hung. Script, p. 594. Franco/. 1600. 
(2) Hist, et D^script. du Royaume de Hongrie, liv. i. p. 30. 
Paris, 1688. 
(3) " On attribue cette graudc fertility Ji la communicatioa qu'ont 
ces eaux' avec les mines de sel," &c. Le Royaume de la Hongrie, 
f>. 94. a Cologne, 1686. See also Sambtiau, de Reb. Hungar. apud 
Bonjinium, p. T 60. Franco/. 1561. 
