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The General Description os Hungary.
Besides these large Rivers above named, there are seme others, taken
notice of also by Pliny ; and esleemed Huvii non ignobiles. The Sar-
vizza or Or pants, arising near VejpriAum, and palling by Alla Regal is,
runs into the Danube, which I palled over at Jem, or nova Palan-
ka. The River Walpo or Fulpanus, arising above the Town of Walfo\
which was taken by Solyman, in his march to Alba Regalis, or Stull-
Weiffenburg. We palled over it by Walcovar, and the River Bofneth or
Bacunthus, which runs into the Saws, not far from old Sirmi-
um
As this Country excels in Rivers, so has it also many cmsidera-
ble and long Bridges. There is a long Bridge of Boats over the Danube,
between Strigonium and Barchan, which is the first Bridge on this Ri-
ver, which we meet with srom the great Wooden Bridge at Vienna,
which takes above two thousand Trees to plancher it. Upon the ihoar
of St. Andrews Ifland by Virouichitz, I took notice of a ruine of Stones,
where the Turks told us, there had been formerly a Stone Bridge : but
the Turks in these Parts, think it bell to make Bridges of Boats; which
they so handsomly contrive, as to open a pallage for Boats and Vesiels
of burthen to pass; so that he that beholds those in these Parts, will
not wonder at the Bridges of Boats at Rouen, and Grenoble in France.
Between Buda and Pesl, there is a Bridge of Boats over the Danube,
where it runs all in one Stream, of above half a Mile long, the besb
I have seen of this kind; and it Sigifmund had lived to effect his De-
sign, os making a notable Stone Bridge in this Place, there had proba-
bly been no Bridge in Europe to compare with it. There is also a
Bridge at Calocza, formerly an Archbijhop’s Sea, and a handsome and
well-contrived Bridge, by Walcovar over the River Walpo. But that
of Ejj'eck, or Marfa of old, is scarce to be parallel’d with any other;
built partly over the Draws, and partly over the Fenns,which are often
overssowed. The Bridge is five Miles at lead in length, having Towers
built upon it at the diilance of every quarter of a Mile : It is hand-
somly railed on each fide, and supported by great Trees, erected under
it; nine or ten in a rank, unto each Arch. That part of the Bridge,
which was built over the Draws, was burnt down by Count Nicholas
Serin, in the late Turkifh Wars between Leopoldus the First, Emperor
of Germany, and Sultan Mahomet the Fourth : and is now lupplyei
by a Bridge of Boats, somewhat b low the former ; which I palled o-
ver in September, 1669. The Turks did not rebuild it in the same
place, because the Supporters below the Water, when the fire chased,
were so strongly sastned and hard, that it would have cosf them too
great a labour to get them up. By this Bridge the Turkifb Forces pafs
into Hungary', and at this place the unfortunate King Ludovicus
thought to have slopped the Turkif Army which marched under So-
lyman. And lately Count Serini undertook a long March to burn the
same, to prevent Supplies from coming to the Vifier, who was with his
Army in other parts of Hungary.
And as there are Hill many Bridges over the upper Danube, so have
there also been in Old time upon the lower, or Istrian part thereof
Darius King of Persia made a Bridge of Boats over that Mouth of the
sjter called uftium Sacrum. Nicephorus relates, that Conftantine built
a Stone Bridge over it. But the mod remarkable and admirable Bridge,
was that, built by the Emperor Adrian, and described by Dion the Hi-
dorian : whereof there are still some Ruines, not far from Severin, a-
z bout
The General Description os Hungary.
Besides these large Rivers above named, there are seme others, taken
notice of also by Pliny ; and esleemed Huvii non ignobiles. The Sar-
vizza or Or pants, arising near VejpriAum, and palling by Alla Regal is,
runs into the Danube, which I palled over at Jem, or nova Palan-
ka. The River Walpo or Fulpanus, arising above the Town of Walfo\
which was taken by Solyman, in his march to Alba Regalis, or Stull-
Weiffenburg. We palled over it by Walcovar, and the River Bofneth or
Bacunthus, which runs into the Saws, not far from old Sirmi-
um
As this Country excels in Rivers, so has it also many cmsidera-
ble and long Bridges. There is a long Bridge of Boats over the Danube,
between Strigonium and Barchan, which is the first Bridge on this Ri-
ver, which we meet with srom the great Wooden Bridge at Vienna,
which takes above two thousand Trees to plancher it. Upon the ihoar
of St. Andrews Ifland by Virouichitz, I took notice of a ruine of Stones,
where the Turks told us, there had been formerly a Stone Bridge : but
the Turks in these Parts, think it bell to make Bridges of Boats; which
they so handsomly contrive, as to open a pallage for Boats and Vesiels
of burthen to pass; so that he that beholds those in these Parts, will
not wonder at the Bridges of Boats at Rouen, and Grenoble in France.
Between Buda and Pesl, there is a Bridge of Boats over the Danube,
where it runs all in one Stream, of above half a Mile long, the besb
I have seen of this kind; and it Sigifmund had lived to effect his De-
sign, os making a notable Stone Bridge in this Place, there had proba-
bly been no Bridge in Europe to compare with it. There is also a
Bridge at Calocza, formerly an Archbijhop’s Sea, and a handsome and
well-contrived Bridge, by Walcovar over the River Walpo. But that
of Ejj'eck, or Marfa of old, is scarce to be parallel’d with any other;
built partly over the Draws, and partly over the Fenns,which are often
overssowed. The Bridge is five Miles at lead in length, having Towers
built upon it at the diilance of every quarter of a Mile : It is hand-
somly railed on each fide, and supported by great Trees, erected under
it; nine or ten in a rank, unto each Arch. That part of the Bridge,
which was built over the Draws, was burnt down by Count Nicholas
Serin, in the late Turkifh Wars between Leopoldus the First, Emperor
of Germany, and Sultan Mahomet the Fourth : and is now lupplyei
by a Bridge of Boats, somewhat b low the former ; which I palled o-
ver in September, 1669. The Turks did not rebuild it in the same
place, because the Supporters below the Water, when the fire chased,
were so strongly sastned and hard, that it would have cosf them too
great a labour to get them up. By this Bridge the Turkifb Forces pafs
into Hungary', and at this place the unfortunate King Ludovicus
thought to have slopped the Turkif Army which marched under So-
lyman. And lately Count Serini undertook a long March to burn the
same, to prevent Supplies from coming to the Vifier, who was with his
Army in other parts of Hungary.
And as there are Hill many Bridges over the upper Danube, so have
there also been in Old time upon the lower, or Istrian part thereof
Darius King of Persia made a Bridge of Boats over that Mouth of the
sjter called uftium Sacrum. Nicephorus relates, that Conftantine built
a Stone Bridge over it. But the mod remarkable and admirable Bridge,
was that, built by the Emperor Adrian, and described by Dion the Hi-
dorian : whereof there are still some Ruines, not far from Severin, a-
z bout