House and Garden 
by which the followers of the new faith lost 
their property and citizenship, and were 
compelled to emigrate. This resulted in 
the famous Salzbund or Salt Covenant (the 
signatories of which gave token of their ad¬ 
hesion to the principles of the Reformation 
by licking salt) and in the emigration of 
more than 30,000 people. Most of the 
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emigrants went to Prussia, where they were 
well received; others went to Bavaria and 
Suabia, and others again to Georgia in 
America, where they founded the Salzburg 
colony. Losing of her best in this way, the 
mother city sank into a state of feebleness 
and poverty ; and when in course of time 
the Napoleonic wars broke out, the reigning 
archbishop found himself without means of 
defence, and incontinently fled, leaving his little 
State to be the plaything of the great contending 
Powers. By the peace of Pressburg it was handed 
over to Austria, by that of Vienna four years later 
to Bavaria, while in 1816 it was returned to Austria. 
Under the rule of Austria the city and Crown land 
of Salzburg have developed greatly, and, indeed, 
have become one of the most flourishing provinces of 
the Austrian empire. 
These facts of history are not things in which 
the present-day Salzburger takes very much concern. 
When he shows a visitor around and seeks to im¬ 
press him with the city, he points to its beauty 
of situation, compares it, as did Humboldt, with 
Constantinople, Naples and Venice, describes with 
pride the magnificence of the new Kurhaus and the 
unsurpassable loveliness of the Mirabell Gardens, 
invites you to enjoy the shade of the leafy walks by 
the Salzach, and having got you there whispers in 
your ear that, unconscious as you may be of the 
fact, you are within a stone’s throw of the birthplace 
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