404 FROM THE MINES OF CREMNITZ, 
CHAP, of Hungary, from the first conquest of Pannonia 
^ by Octavius Cwsar, are extremely defective ; and 
even these are now not to be collected in the 
libraries of the country. Some conjecture 
State of respecting the state of literature in any nation 
Literature. t- <=> 
may perhaps be formed by examining the book- 
sellers' shops belonging to its capital; and with 
this view, we eagerly inspected those of Pres- 
burg ; but no prospect could be more barren : 
there was not a single volume worth a mo- 
ment's notice, either upon sale in the town, or 
mentioned in any of their catalogues. In this 
respect, Presburg is inferior to Pest. 
We have little further to add with regard to 
this country. It might perhaps be expected, 
' that a traveller, after journeying through almost 
all Hungary, should say something of those rich 
^^,'"^''°^ wines which form so important an article of its 
rlnngiiry. i- 
produce. The inhabitants have every induce- 
ment to drink wine, because they have no beer ; 
redolens nobilitatis, a Pisone namque nominatum, qui Pannoniis prafuit, 
et Thraces ad Mt/sios deficientes domiiit, quorum captivi in vincula con- 
jecti tantae feritatis erant, (ut ait X. Florus,) ut catenas dentibus morde- 
rent." Ant. Bonfinio, Decad. 1. lib. i. p. 4. edit. Sambuci, Frnnc f. 
1581. See also the Siege of Pisonium, by Geysa, in the sixth book: 
(Decad. 2. p. 259.) " Rumor in Vngarid, statim effunditur, Pisonium a 
Germanis captum, quare universa Pannonia nimium perturbata." 
