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A Journey from Vienn a into Styria, Carinthia,Carniola,Friuli, 8 7
Purely a man can seldom pass more clearly and diRindVly from one
Country unto another than in this Town ; on one side of the Bridge
live Italians, Subjects unto the State of Venice, on the other side Ger¬
mans, Subjects unto the Emperor. Upon the one side their Buildings,
their manner of living, their empty Rooms, large Windows, Iron Bed-
Reads ihow them to be Italians: On the other side immediately their
Stoves, higher Bed-Reads, Feather-beds one over another, square Ta¬
bles, and their Bason and Cloth by rhe Wall declare them to be Ger*
mans \ the Bridge it self is also half Italian, half Dutch, one part being
built os Stone, and the other of great Trees laid over after the German
falhion os making bridges. Between Venfone and Pontela there are
many great Casiata's or falls of waters; but of several pallages os the
Alpes this seemed unto me the belt and moil easie.
In these Mountainous places I was entertained with strange Rories
of the Snow which covers these Hills in the Winter, as how many
pikes length the Snow was deep in some places, how round the Coun-
try would look when all the craggy Rocks were covered, how a Snow-
ball thrown down from a Mountain would so gather and augment in
the fall, as to do great mischiefin the Valley, and that if the smalleR
Bird should but scrape with her foot at the edge os an high Hill, that
little beginning might so encrease in the descent, upon a thaugh, as to
over-whelm an House at the bottom.
From hence by Terms, and ZzrZ, unto Villach, or Villach, an hand-
some Town, and one of the chiefeR in Carinthia ; but before I came to
Villach I went to see the Natural Baths which were not much out of the
way at the foot of an Hill about an Englifh mile from the Town and in
good eReem. There are two clear Sulphureous Baths, but very gent-
ly warm, and have an acid and no unpleasanttaRe ; the bottom is not
planchered nor paved, but hath its own natural Spring and Settlement
with it; yet into one there is a hot Spring let in which arises by it;
they are large and have Rairs to descend into them, with little Rooms
of wood about them for accommodation, they are covered over, and
they bathe in them cloathed with shirt and drawers as in Auflria.
Not far from hence is a Lake called the Ofliacker See, from Ofliack a
Town upon the side thereof, and is one of the moR considerable Lakes
in Carinthia, there being besides it, these which are remarkable, the
White Lake, the Millflatter, the Wend, and the Forchten; this Lake
doth not onely abound in Fish, but affords great plenty of OJJiacker
Nuts, which the people eat, and some make Bread of; which notwith-
Randing upon examination I found to be no other than very large Seeds
of Trilulus Aquations, or water Gallthorps.
From Villach I soon came to the Werd See, and keeping it continual-
ly on my right hand, I travelled by the side of it till 1 came to Clagpnjar¬
te, and then palled again to St. Veits, where I met Mr. Donellan, from
whom,upon my former desires to him, I received an account of the
great Lead Mines in upper Carinthia at Bleyler^, where they have
worked eleven hundred years, and the Pits are deep; Federnus Stollen
or Cuniculus is an hundred and ten fathoms deep in the Earth, and the
Hills so high about it, that upon the melting of the Snow in the Spring,
there is often much hurt done, the Snow rowling and salling in such
vaR heaps that nothing is able to resiR it, sothat in the year 165*4. it
fell so vehemently that it deRroyed and carried away sixieen Houses.
He
Purely a man can seldom pass more clearly and diRindVly from one
Country unto another than in this Town ; on one side of the Bridge
live Italians, Subjects unto the State of Venice, on the other side Ger¬
mans, Subjects unto the Emperor. Upon the one side their Buildings,
their manner of living, their empty Rooms, large Windows, Iron Bed-
Reads ihow them to be Italians: On the other side immediately their
Stoves, higher Bed-Reads, Feather-beds one over another, square Ta¬
bles, and their Bason and Cloth by rhe Wall declare them to be Ger*
mans \ the Bridge it self is also half Italian, half Dutch, one part being
built os Stone, and the other of great Trees laid over after the German
falhion os making bridges. Between Venfone and Pontela there are
many great Casiata's or falls of waters; but of several pallages os the
Alpes this seemed unto me the belt and moil easie.
In these Mountainous places I was entertained with strange Rories
of the Snow which covers these Hills in the Winter, as how many
pikes length the Snow was deep in some places, how round the Coun-
try would look when all the craggy Rocks were covered, how a Snow-
ball thrown down from a Mountain would so gather and augment in
the fall, as to do great mischiefin the Valley, and that if the smalleR
Bird should but scrape with her foot at the edge os an high Hill, that
little beginning might so encrease in the descent, upon a thaugh, as to
over-whelm an House at the bottom.
From hence by Terms, and ZzrZ, unto Villach, or Villach, an hand-
some Town, and one of the chiefeR in Carinthia ; but before I came to
Villach I went to see the Natural Baths which were not much out of the
way at the foot of an Hill about an Englifh mile from the Town and in
good eReem. There are two clear Sulphureous Baths, but very gent-
ly warm, and have an acid and no unpleasanttaRe ; the bottom is not
planchered nor paved, but hath its own natural Spring and Settlement
with it; yet into one there is a hot Spring let in which arises by it;
they are large and have Rairs to descend into them, with little Rooms
of wood about them for accommodation, they are covered over, and
they bathe in them cloathed with shirt and drawers as in Auflria.
Not far from hence is a Lake called the Ofliacker See, from Ofliack a
Town upon the side thereof, and is one of the moR considerable Lakes
in Carinthia, there being besides it, these which are remarkable, the
White Lake, the Millflatter, the Wend, and the Forchten; this Lake
doth not onely abound in Fish, but affords great plenty of OJJiacker
Nuts, which the people eat, and some make Bread of; which notwith-
Randing upon examination I found to be no other than very large Seeds
of Trilulus Aquations, or water Gallthorps.
From Villach I soon came to the Werd See, and keeping it continual-
ly on my right hand, I travelled by the side of it till 1 came to Clagpnjar¬
te, and then palled again to St. Veits, where I met Mr. Donellan, from
whom,upon my former desires to him, I received an account of the
great Lead Mines in upper Carinthia at Bleyler^, where they have
worked eleven hundred years, and the Pits are deep; Federnus Stollen
or Cuniculus is an hundred and ten fathoms deep in the Earth, and the
Hills so high about it, that upon the melting of the Snow in the Spring,
there is often much hurt done, the Snow rowling and salling in such
vaR heaps that nothing is able to resiR it, sothat in the year 165*4. it
fell so vehemently that it deRroyed and carried away sixieen Houses.
He