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into Germany'. The Hungarians call it Ouwar; chap. 
a name in their language signifying nothing ^ »• ' 
more than Castle, or Citadel: it comes very 
near to our word Tower. About a quarter of 
an hour after leaving Deutch Altemhurghj oppo- 
site to a Gothic church, we saw a conical hill, 
which appeared to us to be an old Celtic tumulus, 
although of very considerable magnitude. When 
these tumuli are of great size, it becomes diffi- 
cult to distinguish them from the mounds 
raised by the Romans within their camps and 
their citadels. In our journey this day, we obser- 
ved many little burrowing quadrupeds, which 
we supposed to be Hamster rats*; proving a 
great nuisance to the farmers of this country, 
by the ravages they commit: but it is not easy 
to point out a more fertile territory than the 
whole of the district between Presburg and Vienna. 
The inhabitants had already mowed their hay. 
We dined at Reiglesbrun ; and proceeded to f/Jj|"' 
Fischamend, a town upon the side of the Danube^ Fischa- 
A mend. 
(3) " Loco praeterea tam necessario et opportuno, ut nulla alia per 
regiones illas via, ex Hungaria in Germaniam, nisi sub arcis conspectu, 
imo adeo sub ipsis portis, pateat, &c." Ihid. 
(4) Mus Cricetus. The Hamster has, however, a short and pointed 
tail ; but these animals, resembling the Suslic of Little Tahtartj, ^ere 
not thus characterized. Those which we observed in the great plain 
eastward of Pest in Hungary had broad tails, like Sguirrels, and perhaps 
belong to a non-d«script species. 
