1801.] 
They aly: not divide the day into wisi 
like ours, but into hours three times 
Jonger, without however being very exact 
in that refpet; the hours of night are 
indicated acreeably to the pofitiofr of the 
ftars. Skiltul players at chefs are every 
where foundamong them; but inftrumental 
mufic is perfeétly unknown, and they 
only dance to the found of the voice. — 
we Sete 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
A SKETCH of VIENNA, and of the MAN- 
NERS Of ifs INHABITANTS. 
vo has been fo long the capital 
of the Empire, that it feems fo vol. 
fels fome claim to the higheft rank among 
the cities of Europe. It has fo much en- 
creafed in dimenifions of late a that, 
including its valt faburbs, it has not un- 
aptly been compared to a_{wallow with 
the wings of ancagle. In 1796 the city 
itfelf was computed to contain 1397 
houfes, and the fuburbs 5102, befides a 
confiderable fpace referved for building. 
The fuburbs likewife are adorned.with a 
great number. of {pacious gardens, and 
many of the buildings occupy a large ex- 
tent of ground. 
From the latitude of Vienna, which is 
nearly the fame as that of Orleans, it 
would be fuppofed that the temperature of 
the air was in general very high; but 
this ‘metropolis is furrounded with lofty 
hills and mountains that .colleé&t much ice 
and {now in winter, the retreat of which, | 
in fpring, is very tardy. Hence it is that 
the intenfe fummer-heats Jaft_ only a _cou- 
ple of months, and in winter the cold is 
often very fevere. / 
The heat too is much moderated by very 
frequent and eften keen winds, which pre- 
vail here, greatly to the inconvenience of 
of the refugee Milanefe, and other Itali- 
ans, who have taken up their abode in this 
city. The inhabitants of Vienna, like 
their neighbours, the Hungarians and 
Poles, ule warm clothing, and wrap them- 
felves up in their pelifles on the firft ap- 
pearance of cold weather; befides ufing 
the German cuftom of warming their 
houfes with ftoves, which are always of 
a fize amply fufficient for the climate. 
The number of thofe who fall yictims 
to pulmonic difeafes in Vienna, 1 is remark- 
ably large. All-great cities, it is true, 
are unfavourable for the confumptive, but 
nowhere does this difeafe appear: fo fatal, 
notwithftanding all the efforts of the me- 
dical art, which is cultivated- with more 
care, and practifed with more fkjjl here, 
MonTHLY Mac, N°, 79+ 
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A Sketch of Vienna and the Manners of its Inhabitants. 
(3ls 
than perhaps in any other part of Ger- 
many. 
The fmall-pox too is often very fatal 
here. In 1795 it carried off 1098 per- 
fons, The inoculation for the cow-pox 
has, however, been lately introduced, 
which may prove of effential benefit. 
Vienna has, the advantage of being di- 
~ vided by the Danube, but this is pur- 
chafed by fome inconveniences ; for, when 
the river is fuddenly fwelled by the melt- 
ing of the fnows fromthe hills, it inun- 
dates a part of the fuburbs, often to a con- 
fiderable height. 
cellence of the police is peculiarly diftin- 
guifhed: it is not eafy to conceive 
greater precautions, and more admirable 
methods than are here employed, for the 
prefervation and relief of the families ex- 
poied to the effects of this calamity. 
It would be imagined that advantage 
would be taken of poffefling fo fine a river, 
to form ‘numerous parties of pleafure to 
fail befide its beautiful banks; but this - 
amufement is not at all fuited to the tafte 
of the inhabitants. They poflefs, how-° 
ever, the important advantage of an eafly - 
navigation for goods and provifions of 
every kind. 
Vienna isone of theleaft beautiful of all 
the capitals of Europe. There is very lit- 
tle to ftrike the ftranger’s eyeg the ftreets are 
crooked, and very irregular, with but lit- 
tle: appearance of any. planer order. 
Near the centre of the town is the fingular 
fight of a bridge thrown acrofs a deep 
low ftreet, which admits of carriages pal 
fing over, whilft the ufual thoroughfare i is 
going on in the ftreet below; refembling 
the canals in England, which are often 
eee over navigable rivers. 
There is but one fireet in Vienna that 
can properly be called magnificent, and 
this isa continued line of fplendid houfes 
and palaces. It is called the Nobles’ -/reet. 
The fuburbs are conftru@ted on a ‘better 
plan, and wouid be very elegant, if the 
houfes were larger, and richer in archi- 
teCtural ornaments. ‘The gteater part of 
the ftreets are wide, level and regular, but 
they are chiefly inhabited by manufaéturers 
andwworkmen of varfous trades. 
The whole of the population of Vienna, 
in.1795, was computed at 231,105 inhabi- 
tants, of whom.1231 were ecclefiaftics , 
43253 nobility, 4256 public functionaries 
"and perfons living upon theig private for- 
tune, and 7333.citizens belonging to the 
corporation, 
Among the eftablifhments for the re- 
ligt of the fick, mujt be firt mentioned the 
Ss ~*~ Great 
It is then that the ex- .~ 
