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A Journey /iw Vienna into Styria, Carinthia, Carniola,Friuli.
In a fliort time entring into as odd a desert of Rocks as may be been,
where there is a great Cafeata or fall of waters, and the water hath so
worn the Rocks that all seems to be artificial: the way up is made
with Walls, turning backward and forward with great pains, and grea-
ter Art than I could have expeded in this Country. And in this manner
we went on winding backward and forward till we reached the highest
pallage of the great Mountain Lu'tbel, which is part a of the Carnick
Alpes, ^'^vo^Carinthia^^Carniola, and one ot the mob remark-
able Hills I ever saw ; for having palled up as high as the Reep Rocks
and Peaks would permit, we turned sidewise by a made way which
led us into a hole or passage cut quite through the Mountain, imita-
ting the famed Grotto of the Hill Panfilipo, by Naples : there is a
Roof of Wood-work in the middle, which is continued unto the
Carniolian side ; the Roof of this passage is high, the lenghth of it is
156 yards, and it is four yards broad.
The manner of palling through this Hill was surprizing unto me,
having never read nor heard hereof before, I thought it might be some
work of the old Romans, but I was afterwards informed that it was
much later, and that in former time there was no passage into Carniola
this way, but they went about by Villach. At firfl sight of this hole
when I was far below it, I conjedured it might be the habitation or
Chappel of some Hermit, but could not imagin how he Ihould come
unto it, till at last by the winding and turning of the way up the Hill,
I did not onely pass through it my self, but met with divers Passengers
who came out of Carniola, and it is so well contrived, that the Country
carriages and Carts pass through it every day.
In aseending this Hill we had bad weather, rain and fierce hail, and
and the snow laid Rill by the way-side; and being so high at the time
of a Rorm, I had an opportunity to see the Clouds deseend, and after it
was past to aseend again so high, as to get over part of the Mountain,
and a Rream of them passed through the hole out of Carniola into Carin-
thia, oppositely unto us who passed out c£ Carinthia into Carniola, or
out of Karnten into Craen.
This noble passage beingalrcady so well contrived,and in the Country
of a laborious and industrious people,is like to be continued^ho remove
the snow with great pains in the Winter, and keep the way paRable*
and as we continually aseended till we came to this Grotto, so when we
were once got through it we always descended,& came first to S. Anna,
two Englijh miles downward, then to Newftattel a German mile and
hals further Rill deseending, and proceeded forward till we came to
Crainlurg, which is thought to have been formerly Carnodunum,^. good
Town seated upon the River Saws, from whence through a fair Plain
sour German miles long, we came to Labach or Lubiana the chief City
of Carniola; the River Labach runs through it, which falls after-
wards into the Saws. It is an handsomc City with a Cable seated up-
on an Hill which over-looks two large Valleys to the North and
South, and hath a fair Prosped: of many Hills and Cables, but being
commanded by another Hill not far from it, it is negleded, although
we find that it hath endured a strong Siege, for while the Empefor Fre-
derick was receiving the Crown at Aken, his Brother Albertus and
Count Ztlrick took the advantage to besiege it, but it made so good re-
sistance that the Emperor had time to raife the Siege and deltrov the
Army.
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In a fliort time entring into as odd a desert of Rocks as may be been,
where there is a great Cafeata or fall of waters, and the water hath so
worn the Rocks that all seems to be artificial: the way up is made
with Walls, turning backward and forward with great pains, and grea-
ter Art than I could have expeded in this Country. And in this manner
we went on winding backward and forward till we reached the highest
pallage of the great Mountain Lu'tbel, which is part a of the Carnick
Alpes, ^'^vo^Carinthia^^Carniola, and one ot the mob remark-
able Hills I ever saw ; for having palled up as high as the Reep Rocks
and Peaks would permit, we turned sidewise by a made way which
led us into a hole or passage cut quite through the Mountain, imita-
ting the famed Grotto of the Hill Panfilipo, by Naples : there is a
Roof of Wood-work in the middle, which is continued unto the
Carniolian side ; the Roof of this passage is high, the lenghth of it is
156 yards, and it is four yards broad.
The manner of palling through this Hill was surprizing unto me,
having never read nor heard hereof before, I thought it might be some
work of the old Romans, but I was afterwards informed that it was
much later, and that in former time there was no passage into Carniola
this way, but they went about by Villach. At firfl sight of this hole
when I was far below it, I conjedured it might be the habitation or
Chappel of some Hermit, but could not imagin how he Ihould come
unto it, till at last by the winding and turning of the way up the Hill,
I did not onely pass through it my self, but met with divers Passengers
who came out of Carniola, and it is so well contrived, that the Country
carriages and Carts pass through it every day.
In aseending this Hill we had bad weather, rain and fierce hail, and
and the snow laid Rill by the way-side; and being so high at the time
of a Rorm, I had an opportunity to see the Clouds deseend, and after it
was past to aseend again so high, as to get over part of the Mountain,
and a Rream of them passed through the hole out of Carniola into Carin-
thia, oppositely unto us who passed out c£ Carinthia into Carniola, or
out of Karnten into Craen.
This noble passage beingalrcady so well contrived,and in the Country
of a laborious and industrious people,is like to be continued^ho remove
the snow with great pains in the Winter, and keep the way paRable*
and as we continually aseended till we came to this Grotto, so when we
were once got through it we always descended,& came first to S. Anna,
two Englijh miles downward, then to Newftattel a German mile and
hals further Rill deseending, and proceeded forward till we came to
Crainlurg, which is thought to have been formerly Carnodunum,^. good
Town seated upon the River Saws, from whence through a fair Plain
sour German miles long, we came to Labach or Lubiana the chief City
of Carniola; the River Labach runs through it, which falls after-
wards into the Saws. It is an handsomc City with a Cable seated up-
on an Hill which over-looks two large Valleys to the North and
South, and hath a fair Prosped: of many Hills and Cables, but being
commanded by another Hill not far from it, it is negleded, although
we find that it hath endured a strong Siege, for while the Empefor Fre-
derick was receiving the Crown at Aken, his Brother Albertus and
Count Ztlrick took the advantage to besiege it, but it made so good re-
sistance that the Emperor had time to raife the Siege and deltrov the
Army.
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