TO THE MINES OF CREMNITZ. 339 
but, according to Bonfinius, the antient name of chap. 
IV. 
Buda\v3.s SiCAMBRiA*^; and it was called Buda, -■ 
from Bleda, the brother oL^ni la, who had received 
that appellation ^ Several Roman antiquities 
remain in different parts of the town\ By 
the Germans, Buda is called OJ^en, or, as we 
should say, Oven ; owing to its natural suda- 
tories, or hot kilns\ It is divided into two 
parts, Upper and Lower. They still shew the 
remains of structures built here by Matthias 
Corvinus, king of Hungary, and by his prede- 
cessors. This city was taken by Sultan History of 
Solyman, August 20, 1526; and recaptured 
by Ferdinand the First, king of Bohemia, brother 
of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, in the fol- 
lowing year. In 1529, ^Y the treason of the 
garrison, it fell again into the hands of Solyman, 
(2) "Quinetiam5«c/(7»t fratrem, cui gubeniationem Scythia?, ajdifi- 
candumque urbem in Danubii ripA, Skambriaqiie ruinis, Budam 
deinde dictam delegaret, dolo captum interfecit." f^ide.int.JBon/inium, 
Rer. f^ngar. Decadis I. lib. \'n, p.oZ. edit. Sambuci. Franco/. 1581. 
(3) " Bleddmque, fratrem, quern plerique Budam appellant," &c. 
Ibid. p. 52. 
(4) Townson found here many Roman inscriptions, none of which 
were seen by us : by some one of these, the antient name of this 
place might be determined. Townson also mentions a Roman 
SUDARIUM. See Travels in Hungary, chap. 4. 
(5) " Nunc a furnis calcis, quse olim ex lapidibus iliic coquebatur, 
Off'eu vocant." Atila, Nicholai Olahi, cap. 13. p. 880. Franco/. 1581. 
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