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The General Description os Hungary.
On the same side is also the noble River Savus, or the Sjzz; which a-
rising in Carinthia, entreth the Danube at Belgrade ; continuing a long
course of about three hundred Miles, and swelling by the accession of
many good Rivers. Being at Carnodunum or C rainburg, an hsndlbm
Town, not far distant from the Head, it appeared a considerable Stream:
which is afterwards so enlarged, as to have remarkable Blands in it, as
that of Metubaris, to the West of old Sirmium, and that of SegeFhca or
Sifieck, by Zagrabia, containing of old a strong and famous Town ;
unto which the old Romans brought their Commodities from z^z/e.G,
and so by Land to Labach cr Nauportus; from thence unto Segeslica,
and forwards, for the supply of those Provinces and their Garrisons
and Forces in them. Between these two noble Currents of the Dravus
and the lyeth a fair and long Inter-amnian Country, wherein
Solyman the Magnificent chose a safe retreat, until he came to
grade: when, with about four hundred thousand Men, which he
brought to take Vienna, he dared not to meet the Forces of Charles the
Fifth, then encamped before that City.
Upon the North part of Hungary, are the Rivers arising srom the
Carpathian Mountains, which divide Boland and Hungary; more parti-
cularly the River Gran, which runs into the Danube, over against
Strigonium or Gran; and also the River or Vagus, which comes
in above Com ar a : which Stuckius, an ocular Witness, conceiveth to e-
qual the Po in Italy. I am sure, at Freifiat, above fifty Miles, before
it dischargeth into the Danube, it is a very large Stream, and hath
a long Bridge over it; part whereof W'as broken down by the Ice, the
same year when I was there. And far above it, nearer the head, there
is also a considerable Bridge at Trersichin,a fair Town, which gives the
name unto that Country, and much resorted unto for its hot Baths and
Mineral Waters; having no less than thirty two plentisul Springs.
The great Danubius or Thonau continues its Stream quite through
Hungary ; and no one Province hath a larger ssiare of it; for account-
ing from the City of Vlme in Swabenland or Suevia , where it begin-
neth to be Navigable, it continues a long course, palling by Ingplfiad,
Ratisbone, Straubing, Paflau, Lintz and Vienna unto Presburg; srom
whence through Hungary it makes a course of above three hundred
Miles, before it pasies by Belgrade: To omit the long Stream thereof
in its farther progress, when having walhed the Shears of Servia, Bui-
garia, Wallachia and Moldavia, with many mouths it entreth the Eu-
xine or Blasi-Sea : having in this long pasiage drank in above sixty con-
siderable Rivers; and in sober account performed a course of above
fifteen hundred Miles. Whereby it may tolerably admit the double
name of Danubius and Isler , properly applyed unto distindt Parts
thereof.
So that, altho I have seen the Danubius, for about seven hundred
Miles; yet cannot tell, whether I may certainly say, that I have seen a-
ny part of Isler. For Strabo ascribes that name unto it, below its
Cataratt, or great sall, which happenes about Axiopolis, in Mcefia in-
ferior, or Bulgaria. But Appianus, and later Account, define it to be-
gin at its concurrence w7ith the Savus at Belgrade: and if so, yet we
had but a ssiort sight of the Isier ; which travelling more up into Ser-
bia, we were fain to leave at Hitfargich. And of this Isier or lower
part of the River, many things are spoken and related by the Ancients,
which are not so plainly verifiable of Danubius.
Besidcs
The General Description os Hungary.
On the same side is also the noble River Savus, or the Sjzz; which a-
rising in Carinthia, entreth the Danube at Belgrade ; continuing a long
course of about three hundred Miles, and swelling by the accession of
many good Rivers. Being at Carnodunum or C rainburg, an hsndlbm
Town, not far distant from the Head, it appeared a considerable Stream:
which is afterwards so enlarged, as to have remarkable Blands in it, as
that of Metubaris, to the West of old Sirmium, and that of SegeFhca or
Sifieck, by Zagrabia, containing of old a strong and famous Town ;
unto which the old Romans brought their Commodities from z^z/e.G,
and so by Land to Labach cr Nauportus; from thence unto Segeslica,
and forwards, for the supply of those Provinces and their Garrisons
and Forces in them. Between these two noble Currents of the Dravus
and the lyeth a fair and long Inter-amnian Country, wherein
Solyman the Magnificent chose a safe retreat, until he came to
grade: when, with about four hundred thousand Men, which he
brought to take Vienna, he dared not to meet the Forces of Charles the
Fifth, then encamped before that City.
Upon the North part of Hungary, are the Rivers arising srom the
Carpathian Mountains, which divide Boland and Hungary; more parti-
cularly the River Gran, which runs into the Danube, over against
Strigonium or Gran; and also the River or Vagus, which comes
in above Com ar a : which Stuckius, an ocular Witness, conceiveth to e-
qual the Po in Italy. I am sure, at Freifiat, above fifty Miles, before
it dischargeth into the Danube, it is a very large Stream, and hath
a long Bridge over it; part whereof W'as broken down by the Ice, the
same year when I was there. And far above it, nearer the head, there
is also a considerable Bridge at Trersichin,a fair Town, which gives the
name unto that Country, and much resorted unto for its hot Baths and
Mineral Waters; having no less than thirty two plentisul Springs.
The great Danubius or Thonau continues its Stream quite through
Hungary ; and no one Province hath a larger ssiare of it; for account-
ing from the City of Vlme in Swabenland or Suevia , where it begin-
neth to be Navigable, it continues a long course, palling by Ingplfiad,
Ratisbone, Straubing, Paflau, Lintz and Vienna unto Presburg; srom
whence through Hungary it makes a course of above three hundred
Miles, before it pasies by Belgrade: To omit the long Stream thereof
in its farther progress, when having walhed the Shears of Servia, Bui-
garia, Wallachia and Moldavia, with many mouths it entreth the Eu-
xine or Blasi-Sea : having in this long pasiage drank in above sixty con-
siderable Rivers; and in sober account performed a course of above
fifteen hundred Miles. Whereby it may tolerably admit the double
name of Danubius and Isler , properly applyed unto distindt Parts
thereof.
So that, altho I have seen the Danubius, for about seven hundred
Miles; yet cannot tell, whether I may certainly say, that I have seen a-
ny part of Isler. For Strabo ascribes that name unto it, below its
Cataratt, or great sall, which happenes about Axiopolis, in Mcefia in-
ferior, or Bulgaria. But Appianus, and later Account, define it to be-
gin at its concurrence w7ith the Savus at Belgrade: and if so, yet we
had but a ssiort sight of the Isier ; which travelling more up into Ser-
bia, we were fain to leave at Hitfargich. And of this Isier or lower
part of the River, many things are spoken and related by the Ancients,
which are not so plainly verifiable of Danubius.
Besidcs