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through an avenue of trees, planted, as in chap. 
Flanders and Germany, upon either side of v^ 
the pubUc road. Gran is well built, and very Gra,u 
clean. It was selected by a British Catholic, 
brother of an English Peer, as a place of 
residence for his family ; after being prevented, 
by the Test Act, from serving in the English 
army. Dr. Townson- informs us that he was 
hospitably entertained in the house of this gen- 
tleman, a Mr. Dormer, who had obtained the 
rank of Major in the German service. That a 
town of such magnitude and striking appearance, 
instead of being conspicuous in our best maps, 
should hardly be found in any one of them, is 
remarkable ^ It was called Strigonium, hut more 
antiently Istripolis; and the county is now 
named Strigonia. It contains the tombs of some 
of the Hungarian kings*, and was once the 
metropolis of the whole country \ Its destruction 
(2) See Townson& Travels in Hungary, chap. 3. 
(3) It is even omitted in the " Mappa Geographica Cursuum Vereda- 
riorum Hungarice," puhlished at Vienna. D^ Anville lays it down as 
Strigonie s but this is the name of the county. 
(4) Vid. Kar.Hun^ar. Script, p. 57. 1. 34. et p. 7G. 1. 55. Franco/. 
1600. 
(5) " Sed ciira Stkigonium in Hungaria, omneset singulas praecelleret 
civitates," &c. {^Chronica Hungarorum Ranzani, lib. i. cap. 58. apud Rer. 
Hung. Script, p. 193. Franco/. 1600.) " Strigonium, Istripolis antJ- 
quitus dicta, totius Hunguria pra;clara metropolis." {Ibid. lib. xxi. ;>. 213. 
It is often extolled by the Hungarian writers, but particularly by Qaleotut 
Martiut, 
