I'oioiiium 
402- FROM THE MINES OF CREMNITZ, 
CHAP, whom are Lutherans : and there are many Jews, 
,- ' who are not suffered to reside nearer to the 
mines. The Danube is here very rapid^ and 
nearly half a mile wide. Preshurg is the capi- 
tal of a county that bears its name ; and 
after the conquest of Buda by the Turks, it 
became the capital of Hungary. The body of 
<S^ JohUf bishop of Alexandria, is preserved in 
the metropolitan church. By the Hungarians 
it is called Poson ; and by Latin authors, 
PosoNiUM. The author of the Itinerary of 
Germany mentions it under this name\ The 
Castle, like a Grecian acropolis, is situate upon 
an eminence sloping towards the river, which 
is covered by the buildings of the town : among 
these are many erected in the Italian taste, 
giving an air of grandeur to the streets. The 
first notice of Poson in the Hungarian Chronicles 
does not bear date anterior to the eleventh cen- 
tury; when the citadel was besieged by Henry 
the Third of Franconia, surnamed the Black, 
who succeeded his father Conrade in lOSQ". 
(1) Vid.lib.v 
" Hie ubi Posonium consurgit turribus altis, 
Limes Teutonicis, Hungariisque viris." 
(2) " Eo tempore (A. D. 1047) TAeu^onjcorttm rex cum magiio cxer- 
citu obsedit castrum PosoK." Joann. deTurocz (yelThwrocz, ling. Hung.) 
Chronica Hungarorum, ap. Script. Rer. Hung. p. 49. Franco/. 1600. 
Nomen auctori a patria, Turocensi provincia, seu, ut illi vocant, comitatu, 
aut conrcntu. 
