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86 A Journey srom Vienna into Styria, Carinthia,Carniola,Friuli.
Having formerly had a view of Rome, Naples, Florence, and the
great Cities of Italy, and palled some time at Padoa a few years before,
I made but a short slay about Venice, ard having reviewed what was
most considerable, and renewed my acquaintance with some worthy
courteous Friends at Venice and Padoa, Mr. Hales the Consul, Mr. Hob-
fon, Dr. Cadined, and others. I disposed my affair for my return to
Vienna the ordinary way.
In order thereto I took Boat at Venice and landed at Meftre a pret-
ty Town, and the best place for accommodation for such as travel into
Germany by Tirol, or into Auftria by Friuli; from hence I travelled
ten miles through a pleasant plain Country till I came to Treviso or
Taruijium, which gives the name unto the Country about, La Marca
Trevigiana, a handsome City adorned with good Houses, Churches,
Towers and Fountains. The clear River Sile or Silo runs through
it, and afterwards into the Sea between Meflre and Murano ♦, it aboun-
ds in good Wines and Fruit, and was a chief Seat of the Lombards in
these parts. This old City, aster having run various fortunes and been
under the subjedion of the Huns, and other conquering Nations, and
sometimes obeyed the Signori della Scala, and the Carrareji was united
to the State of Venice in the year 1388. It wras converted to the Chri-
stian Faith by Profdochimus a follower of St. Peter. Eight miles from
hence slood the Ancient City Altinum founded by Antenor, and de-
slroyed by Attila.
From thence I came to Lcruadina, and eroded the great River Piave,
Flaws, or AnaJJus, which arising in the Mountains, passes by the Ci-
ties of Belluna and Feltre, then to Concian or Coniglian, and next to Sa-
cille or Sacillum, formerly a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileia,
a pleasant and well-built place esteemed the Garden of the Republick,
and seated by the River LVuenza or Liquentia, which palling by Motta
runs into the Gulf of Venice.
Here I took a guide to conduct me through the Plains and Mea-
dows, and came to Spilimbergo,where I again took a Guide to cross the
swift River Taiament0 or Tiliauentum ; this is esteemed the greatest Ri-
ver in Friuli, arising above in the Julian Alpes, and running down into
the Adriatic!: Sea, and often over-ssowing a great part of the plain
Country. This swift River put a slop to the incursion of the Turks
when Scander Bajja of Illyria broke into Friuli with twelve thousand
Horse and destroyed all before him, in the Reign of Sultan Bajazet the
Second.
Not far from Spilimbergo, I palled a neat River or notable Cut call-
ed La B rente Ila, sixteen miles long, made by the Venetians for the bet-
ter bringing down of wood from the Mountains to be used in he
making of Glasses at Mur an; it is all paved with a good Stone, bottom
and sides, the bottom is round, so that it is somewhat like a Tube
opened or spht in two.
Then I passed by St. Daniel seated upon an Hill by Hojpitaletto,
and came to Venfone, a Town seated at the beginning of the Hills, and
formerly the limit of the Venetian Dominions; thence by Rejuta to La
chiufa, a place remarkable for the streight pallage of the Alpes, where
the Venetians keep a guard,and Ihut up the passage every night; from
thence I came to Ponteba or 7W? Fella upon the River Fella, the ex-
ad: Confines between the Venetian and Imperial Dominions, and
surely
Having formerly had a view of Rome, Naples, Florence, and the
great Cities of Italy, and palled some time at Padoa a few years before,
I made but a short slay about Venice, ard having reviewed what was
most considerable, and renewed my acquaintance with some worthy
courteous Friends at Venice and Padoa, Mr. Hales the Consul, Mr. Hob-
fon, Dr. Cadined, and others. I disposed my affair for my return to
Vienna the ordinary way.
In order thereto I took Boat at Venice and landed at Meftre a pret-
ty Town, and the best place for accommodation for such as travel into
Germany by Tirol, or into Auftria by Friuli; from hence I travelled
ten miles through a pleasant plain Country till I came to Treviso or
Taruijium, which gives the name unto the Country about, La Marca
Trevigiana, a handsome City adorned with good Houses, Churches,
Towers and Fountains. The clear River Sile or Silo runs through
it, and afterwards into the Sea between Meflre and Murano ♦, it aboun-
ds in good Wines and Fruit, and was a chief Seat of the Lombards in
these parts. This old City, aster having run various fortunes and been
under the subjedion of the Huns, and other conquering Nations, and
sometimes obeyed the Signori della Scala, and the Carrareji was united
to the State of Venice in the year 1388. It wras converted to the Chri-
stian Faith by Profdochimus a follower of St. Peter. Eight miles from
hence slood the Ancient City Altinum founded by Antenor, and de-
slroyed by Attila.
From thence I came to Lcruadina, and eroded the great River Piave,
Flaws, or AnaJJus, which arising in the Mountains, passes by the Ci-
ties of Belluna and Feltre, then to Concian or Coniglian, and next to Sa-
cille or Sacillum, formerly a Bishops See under the Patriarch of Aquileia,
a pleasant and well-built place esteemed the Garden of the Republick,
and seated by the River LVuenza or Liquentia, which palling by Motta
runs into the Gulf of Venice.
Here I took a guide to conduct me through the Plains and Mea-
dows, and came to Spilimbergo,where I again took a Guide to cross the
swift River Taiament0 or Tiliauentum ; this is esteemed the greatest Ri-
ver in Friuli, arising above in the Julian Alpes, and running down into
the Adriatic!: Sea, and often over-ssowing a great part of the plain
Country. This swift River put a slop to the incursion of the Turks
when Scander Bajja of Illyria broke into Friuli with twelve thousand
Horse and destroyed all before him, in the Reign of Sultan Bajazet the
Second.
Not far from Spilimbergo, I palled a neat River or notable Cut call-
ed La B rente Ila, sixteen miles long, made by the Venetians for the bet-
ter bringing down of wood from the Mountains to be used in he
making of Glasses at Mur an; it is all paved with a good Stone, bottom
and sides, the bottom is round, so that it is somewhat like a Tube
opened or spht in two.
Then I passed by St. Daniel seated upon an Hill by Hojpitaletto,
and came to Venfone, a Town seated at the beginning of the Hills, and
formerly the limit of the Venetian Dominions; thence by Rejuta to La
chiufa, a place remarkable for the streight pallage of the Alpes, where
the Venetians keep a guard,and Ihut up the passage every night; from
thence I came to Ponteba or 7W? Fella upon the River Fella, the ex-
ad: Confines between the Venetian and Imperial Dominions, and
surely