398 FROM SCHEMNITZ, 
CHAP, this occasion, after thanking them for all the 
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favours they had conferred upon us, we took 
leave of their Highnesses. 
Departure Maij 24. — This momiug, with great regret, 
sch^mniiz. we bade adieu to Schemnitz, and to the many 
pleasing acquaintances we had formed in the 
town. Owing to some mistake made by us, or 
by the postmaster, we were only able to pro- 
ceed one station upon our journey to Preslmrg, as 
siamboch. far as Stamhoch. To this place the descent is 
uninterrupted the whole way from Schemnitz; sl 
most delightful down- hill journey, winding among 
mountains, through forests, and by plantations 
filled with verdure and flowers. 
May 25. — From Stamhoch we descended into 
a vast plain, extending the whole way to 
Presburg, and to the Danube; and leaving 
behind us the great chain of the Sarmatian moun- 
tains, which separated the Jazyges Metanastce 
from the antient inhabitants of PolancV, we 
(1) The mountains where the goW mtjies are situate, are thus mentioned 
hy Bonfmius. "In rnoniibus vera Sarmaticis, qui Mctanastas a. Poloni-i 
dividunt, Cremnicia, Scemicia (qu, Scemnicia?), Solium (Zoh'om), 7?i- 
stricia : in quibus aurl sunt altissimce argentique fodinae, reginse Beatrici 
Matthia rege dono datae." Ant. Bovfm. Decnd. 1 . lib. i. ;/. 5. Franco/. 
1581. 
