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A Journey from Colen to Vienna
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us in Right and Honour, and in our ancient Pivileges, ZJs, our Wives*
cur Children, and our City of Colen. Moll of the City areiof the Ro-
man Church,and the whole Town so full of Convents,Churches,Church-
men and Reliques, that it is not undeservedly fly led the Rome of Ger-
many. The Lutherans have also a Church within the Walls, and the
Calvinifts at Mulheim, half a League down the stream on the other side
of the Rhine.
Over against Colen lies Lutz, a fmall Village, inhabited chiessy by
Jews. The Vessels which come 'out of the Low-Countries hither are
long, round bellied, and os great burden. Nea,r to the Wall of the
Town, upon the Quay or Key, is a kind os Harbour made for them,-
into which they maybe drawn,and escape tile Injuries they would other-
wise sufier by the Ice in Winter.
Besides the rich Clergy, there are many wealthy Citizens and Mer-
chants here, and they maintain a Traflick and Correspondence with
divers Countries, especially by the convenience of the Rhine. They
speak not the best High- dutch • but Latin and French are understood
by many : Divers Hosts in Inns speak Latin, and the Servants French;
which proves a good help unto Travellers. It was made an University
about the year 1388. Besides the General Hospitals for young and old
persons, there are two for the Sick, and well accommodated. They
have a Pharmacoptea Colonienfs, or a Dijpenfatory proper to the place,
whereby Apothecaries compound their Medicines. I was acquainted
with one of the best, Mr. Llhurg, a knowing and obliging person,who
was his Late Majesty King Charles the Second’s Apothecary while he
resided at Colen, and whom my honoured Friend Sir Alexander Hafer,
his Majesties chief Physician, made use of, who lived in great reputa-
tion in this City.
Two hundred years since AEneas Sylvius left an high exprettion con-
cerning this place, Colonia quae de canjuge Claud ii mat re Neronis, A-
grippina dill a esi, & trium Magorum ojjibus illuftrata, nihil magnifcen-
tius, nihil or natius, tot a- Europa reperias : which though, if stridtly
construed, will hardly be admitted by any who hath beheld Paris, Na-
ples, Fenice, &c. yet doth it declare the nobleness of this City, even in
former times.
We left Colen about four a Clock in the Afternoon, being drawn up
the Stream with Horses, they being made fast by a very long Rope to
the Mast ; we lodged in a small Village, having had a good prospedfe
of Colen all this Evening from ofs the water. Near to this Place Julius
Coe far made his Bridge over the Rhine. The next day we came to
Bon, the Seat of the present Archbishop and Eledtor of Colen, Maximi-
lianus Henricus, Duke of Bavaria, Bishop of Hildifheim and Lzcge,and
Arch-Chancellor of the Empire throughout Italy. This place was for-
merly called Bonna, or Cajira Bonnenfia, the wintering place, in the
time of of the sixth Legion. It was not long since very well,
fortified by the order of the present Archbishop, and the direction of
Colonel Bifer, a blind man, having Catarafts in both his eyes. The *
Archbishops Palace is very Noble, and there is a Chamber seated a good
wray into the Rhine, to which they pass thorow a Gallery. This Night
we lodgecbat the foot of the hignest of the seven Hills by the Rhine,
which are seen at a great distance ; and upon divers of them stand old
ruined Castles. On the 15th we patted by a pleasant Issand with a
Convent
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us in Right and Honour, and in our ancient Pivileges, ZJs, our Wives*
cur Children, and our City of Colen. Moll of the City areiof the Ro-
man Church,and the whole Town so full of Convents,Churches,Church-
men and Reliques, that it is not undeservedly fly led the Rome of Ger-
many. The Lutherans have also a Church within the Walls, and the
Calvinifts at Mulheim, half a League down the stream on the other side
of the Rhine.
Over against Colen lies Lutz, a fmall Village, inhabited chiessy by
Jews. The Vessels which come 'out of the Low-Countries hither are
long, round bellied, and os great burden. Nea,r to the Wall of the
Town, upon the Quay or Key, is a kind os Harbour made for them,-
into which they maybe drawn,and escape tile Injuries they would other-
wise sufier by the Ice in Winter.
Besides the rich Clergy, there are many wealthy Citizens and Mer-
chants here, and they maintain a Traflick and Correspondence with
divers Countries, especially by the convenience of the Rhine. They
speak not the best High- dutch • but Latin and French are understood
by many : Divers Hosts in Inns speak Latin, and the Servants French;
which proves a good help unto Travellers. It was made an University
about the year 1388. Besides the General Hospitals for young and old
persons, there are two for the Sick, and well accommodated. They
have a Pharmacoptea Colonienfs, or a Dijpenfatory proper to the place,
whereby Apothecaries compound their Medicines. I was acquainted
with one of the best, Mr. Llhurg, a knowing and obliging person,who
was his Late Majesty King Charles the Second’s Apothecary while he
resided at Colen, and whom my honoured Friend Sir Alexander Hafer,
his Majesties chief Physician, made use of, who lived in great reputa-
tion in this City.
Two hundred years since AEneas Sylvius left an high exprettion con-
cerning this place, Colonia quae de canjuge Claud ii mat re Neronis, A-
grippina dill a esi, & trium Magorum ojjibus illuftrata, nihil magnifcen-
tius, nihil or natius, tot a- Europa reperias : which though, if stridtly
construed, will hardly be admitted by any who hath beheld Paris, Na-
ples, Fenice, &c. yet doth it declare the nobleness of this City, even in
former times.
We left Colen about four a Clock in the Afternoon, being drawn up
the Stream with Horses, they being made fast by a very long Rope to
the Mast ; we lodged in a small Village, having had a good prospedfe
of Colen all this Evening from ofs the water. Near to this Place Julius
Coe far made his Bridge over the Rhine. The next day we came to
Bon, the Seat of the present Archbishop and Eledtor of Colen, Maximi-
lianus Henricus, Duke of Bavaria, Bishop of Hildifheim and Lzcge,and
Arch-Chancellor of the Empire throughout Italy. This place was for-
merly called Bonna, or Cajira Bonnenfia, the wintering place, in the
time of of the sixth Legion. It was not long since very well,
fortified by the order of the present Archbishop, and the direction of
Colonel Bifer, a blind man, having Catarafts in both his eyes. The *
Archbishops Palace is very Noble, and there is a Chamber seated a good
wray into the Rhine, to which they pass thorow a Gallery. This Night
we lodgecbat the foot of the hignest of the seven Hills by the Rhine,
which are seen at a great distance ; and upon divers of them stand old
ruined Castles. On the 15th we patted by a pleasant Issand with a
Convent