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A Journey from Views into Styria, Carinthia, Carniola,Friuli. 75
diseasesofthc Liver, malignant Fevers and the Plaguejand/many are so
obstinately credulous as to think that whosoever takes it Becomes in-
vulnerable for twenty sour hours after, j
Having bathed in the Baths, and talten a draught of the Town, 1
left Baden, and the next considerable place was Newftad, one of the
chiefest Cities in Auftrtai it is of a square Figure with a Piazza in the
middle of it, two Tides whereof are arched and support d with Pillars :
there are four Gates, three whereof are to be seen srom the Piazza ; St.
Jacobs is the chiefeR Church,which hath two Steeples in the Front. The
Emperor hath a Palace here of a square Building with four Towers,
which are to be seen a great Way offi as is also molt part of the Town,
as lying in a Marish Ground, and in a plain Country; it is encompas-
sed with a Ditch and two Walls, the one very low, the other seems not
Rrong; yet as they told me, at one time the Turk could not take it,
but left it upon condition that they might take something out of the
Town ; which being granted, they took the Frenger or Whipping-
post ,and carried it unto Confiantinpple t 2nd at another time in the Year
15-29. Solyman the Magnificent Itormcd it seven times in one day,
and was every time repuised. At this place Count Peter Serini and
Frangipani were beheaded, as being chief Contrivers in the Hungarian
Revolt.
From hence through the Plains we came to Mount Simeren palling
by Newkirckel, where there is a Chappel with a little red Pinnacle
which they say was built by an Englifh King; I suppose by King Richard
the firfl, who was kept Prisoner in Aujlria in his return from the Holy
Land, whose Ransom built the old Walls of Vienna. Mount Simeren
is a part of Mount Cetins upon the top whereof lies an heap of Stones
which make the boundary between Auftria and Styria ; the aseent of
the Hill is Reep and ssony; so that sometimes it takes twenty four Hor-
ses or Oxen to draw up a Cart or Coach.
We lodged at Schotwien or Schadtivisn,^ flrange Town seated between
Rocks upon the passage of the Hills, the Houses upon the sides of the
Rocks are inaccesiible but from the Top of the Hills,and looking over the
Plains, serve for Watch-Towers ; thisisaclose Rrong place, and called
by home Cfaufira Austria ; having the Mountains on each hand, and
shut up with a Gate at each end; a small current coming down from the
Hills, is admitted into the Towm under the WTall, which put me in
mind of the Pidure of the Wall to the Kingdom of China, wherein is
expresled the manner of the Rivers running into China, the Wall being
Rill continued over them. From hence I came to Mehrzufchlag, the
place where they beat out the Iron into Bars; soto Keimburg palling
by a swift small River named Murtz, then travelled by a CaRle belong-
ing to the Family of Stubnberg, which is eReemed one of the Ancientest
in Germany, and came to Prug, seated upon the River Mur or Maer, a
swist large River, but not navigable, although after it hath passed by
Gratz and Rakenburg it enlarges. Prug or Muripons is not ill built
considering the Country, and hath a fair Piazza. Another Town os
this name I had seen besore seated upon the River Leyta, and for di-
Rindion called Prug upon the L&yta, so forward by Luheissi where the
Staple os Iron is. I came to Knitelfeldt and Judenburg Rill nigh to the
River Mur, the next day to Hundtsmark and Newmark, then to Frei-
sach, which some think to have been Vintnum, others FdC0rz^,in sight
diseasesofthc Liver, malignant Fevers and the Plaguejand/many are so
obstinately credulous as to think that whosoever takes it Becomes in-
vulnerable for twenty sour hours after, j
Having bathed in the Baths, and talten a draught of the Town, 1
left Baden, and the next considerable place was Newftad, one of the
chiefest Cities in Auftrtai it is of a square Figure with a Piazza in the
middle of it, two Tides whereof are arched and support d with Pillars :
there are four Gates, three whereof are to be seen srom the Piazza ; St.
Jacobs is the chiefeR Church,which hath two Steeples in the Front. The
Emperor hath a Palace here of a square Building with four Towers,
which are to be seen a great Way offi as is also molt part of the Town,
as lying in a Marish Ground, and in a plain Country; it is encompas-
sed with a Ditch and two Walls, the one very low, the other seems not
Rrong; yet as they told me, at one time the Turk could not take it,
but left it upon condition that they might take something out of the
Town ; which being granted, they took the Frenger or Whipping-
post ,and carried it unto Confiantinpple t 2nd at another time in the Year
15-29. Solyman the Magnificent Itormcd it seven times in one day,
and was every time repuised. At this place Count Peter Serini and
Frangipani were beheaded, as being chief Contrivers in the Hungarian
Revolt.
From hence through the Plains we came to Mount Simeren palling
by Newkirckel, where there is a Chappel with a little red Pinnacle
which they say was built by an Englifh King; I suppose by King Richard
the firfl, who was kept Prisoner in Aujlria in his return from the Holy
Land, whose Ransom built the old Walls of Vienna. Mount Simeren
is a part of Mount Cetins upon the top whereof lies an heap of Stones
which make the boundary between Auftria and Styria ; the aseent of
the Hill is Reep and ssony; so that sometimes it takes twenty four Hor-
ses or Oxen to draw up a Cart or Coach.
We lodged at Schotwien or Schadtivisn,^ flrange Town seated between
Rocks upon the passage of the Hills, the Houses upon the sides of the
Rocks are inaccesiible but from the Top of the Hills,and looking over the
Plains, serve for Watch-Towers ; thisisaclose Rrong place, and called
by home Cfaufira Austria ; having the Mountains on each hand, and
shut up with a Gate at each end; a small current coming down from the
Hills, is admitted into the Towm under the WTall, which put me in
mind of the Pidure of the Wall to the Kingdom of China, wherein is
expresled the manner of the Rivers running into China, the Wall being
Rill continued over them. From hence I came to Mehrzufchlag, the
place where they beat out the Iron into Bars; soto Keimburg palling
by a swift small River named Murtz, then travelled by a CaRle belong-
ing to the Family of Stubnberg, which is eReemed one of the Ancientest
in Germany, and came to Prug, seated upon the River Mur or Maer, a
swist large River, but not navigable, although after it hath passed by
Gratz and Rakenburg it enlarges. Prug or Muripons is not ill built
considering the Country, and hath a fair Piazza. Another Town os
this name I had seen besore seated upon the River Leyta, and for di-
Rindion called Prug upon the L&yta, so forward by Luheissi where the
Staple os Iron is. I came to Knitelfeldt and Judenburg Rill nigh to the
River Mur, the next day to Hundtsmark and Newmark, then to Frei-
sach, which some think to have been Vintnum, others FdC0rz^,in sight