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88 A Journey srom Vienna into Styria, Carinthia,Carniola,Friuli.
He presented me also with many handsome natural Curiosities colledt-
ed by him in those parts, one of which among the rest I cannot but
mention which was a rich large fair piece of natural Cinnabar found in
Crewalt, or in the Forest of Cre, two German miles from St. Veits in
the Lordship of Oojlerwitz, where there hath been great quantities
found out, for the Herr von Staudach above thirty years ago, as he
was hunting in this Forest, being thirsty and laying down to drink
out of a little stream wdiich runs from the top of the Hill, he per-
ceived the stream to be full of Cinnabar, but since it hath been so dili-
gently searched after, that without working and digging for it, there is
little to be found.
From St. Veitz I continued my journey tyFriefach, where formerly
there was a Gold Mine, and then by Newmark, Hundtsmark, Peltfolz,
Knitelfeldt, Luihm, Prag, Keimberg, Mehrz*u-Schlag, Schadtwien, New-
kirckel, Newlladt, Solinaw, Trafkirchel, Newdorjf, to Wien.
This my return from Venice to Vienna, about three hundred and fif-
ty Italian miles, was the most quiet journey I ever made, for not meet-
ing with good Company I performed it alone, and upon one Horse ;
and although there are several Nations,and no less than four Langauges
spoken upon this road, yet I met with no disturbance from any, nor
did any one ask from whence I came, or whither I would go, no trou-
ble as to Bills of health, and good accommodation in the Inns at an ea-
sie rate, they are for the most part a plain People, make good Souldi-
ers, little mutinous, but obedient to commands, and hardy, and are of
good use and service unto the Emperor.
In my travels in Germany I seldom failed to meet with Jews, but in
this journey I met with none, or such as I could not well distinguisti,
for though there were then whole Villages of Jews in Auftriayget they
were prohibited in Styria, and severely banished out of Carinthia, so
that for those Jews who travelled between Venice and Vienna ; the
Emperor dispences with them as to their Ruf£ and the Venetians as
to their red Hat.
To say any thing of Vienna may seem superssuous, divers having
written thereof, and it might fall better in, if ever I should describe my
journey from the Low Countries to Vienna, and from Vienna by the
way of Moravia, Bohemia, Mifnia, Sax onia unto Hamburg; mean
while I would no longer defer to give some account of places less
known or less described in Pannonian, Dacian, Mrefan, Grecian, Nori-
cum, and Illyrian Countries, which in their proper order are delivered
in this Work.
In my Travels through Hungaria and the Imperial Provinces, I
could not but take notice of some Assertions which I could not veri-
fier
is commonly counted to be in Hungaria, and so described
by some Authors, but if stridtly considered it is seated in Servia, or
Mie ft a Superior, beyond the bounds of Hungaria.
That St. Jerome was a Pannonian may be granted, but that he was a
Native of Hungaria, strickly taken may be doubted, for he was born in
stridon, now conceived to be Stredon or Streyna, on the inward or
Wcstern side of the River Mur, before it runs into the Draws, and is
accounted in Steirmark.
It
He presented me also with many handsome natural Curiosities colledt-
ed by him in those parts, one of which among the rest I cannot but
mention which was a rich large fair piece of natural Cinnabar found in
Crewalt, or in the Forest of Cre, two German miles from St. Veits in
the Lordship of Oojlerwitz, where there hath been great quantities
found out, for the Herr von Staudach above thirty years ago, as he
was hunting in this Forest, being thirsty and laying down to drink
out of a little stream wdiich runs from the top of the Hill, he per-
ceived the stream to be full of Cinnabar, but since it hath been so dili-
gently searched after, that without working and digging for it, there is
little to be found.
From St. Veitz I continued my journey tyFriefach, where formerly
there was a Gold Mine, and then by Newmark, Hundtsmark, Peltfolz,
Knitelfeldt, Luihm, Prag, Keimberg, Mehrz*u-Schlag, Schadtwien, New-
kirckel, Newlladt, Solinaw, Trafkirchel, Newdorjf, to Wien.
This my return from Venice to Vienna, about three hundred and fif-
ty Italian miles, was the most quiet journey I ever made, for not meet-
ing with good Company I performed it alone, and upon one Horse ;
and although there are several Nations,and no less than four Langauges
spoken upon this road, yet I met with no disturbance from any, nor
did any one ask from whence I came, or whither I would go, no trou-
ble as to Bills of health, and good accommodation in the Inns at an ea-
sie rate, they are for the most part a plain People, make good Souldi-
ers, little mutinous, but obedient to commands, and hardy, and are of
good use and service unto the Emperor.
In my travels in Germany I seldom failed to meet with Jews, but in
this journey I met with none, or such as I could not well distinguisti,
for though there were then whole Villages of Jews in Auftriayget they
were prohibited in Styria, and severely banished out of Carinthia, so
that for those Jews who travelled between Venice and Vienna ; the
Emperor dispences with them as to their Ruf£ and the Venetians as
to their red Hat.
To say any thing of Vienna may seem superssuous, divers having
written thereof, and it might fall better in, if ever I should describe my
journey from the Low Countries to Vienna, and from Vienna by the
way of Moravia, Bohemia, Mifnia, Sax onia unto Hamburg; mean
while I would no longer defer to give some account of places less
known or less described in Pannonian, Dacian, Mrefan, Grecian, Nori-
cum, and Illyrian Countries, which in their proper order are delivered
in this Work.
In my Travels through Hungaria and the Imperial Provinces, I
could not but take notice of some Assertions which I could not veri-
fier
is commonly counted to be in Hungaria, and so described
by some Authors, but if stridtly considered it is seated in Servia, or
Mie ft a Superior, beyond the bounds of Hungaria.
That St. Jerome was a Pannonian may be granted, but that he was a
Native of Hungaria, strickly taken may be doubted, for he was born in
stridon, now conceived to be Stredon or Streyna, on the inward or
Wcstern side of the River Mur, before it runs into the Draws, and is
accounted in Steirmark.
It