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154 A Descrip/ion of Vienna.
Trade, hoping to find better Markers lor their Plagiaries and Depreda-
tions^
There are divers ormL,' who trade to Vienna, and many live in the
Town, among which I mot with three considerable perlons. One a
grave Abbot, who was sorced from his Convent by the ThH, upon sus-
picion that he cotrespcnded with thole oi Candia. Another,who went
by the name os Cotfant.inus Catacuzenos, and was of the Blood Royal
oi tlie Catacuxeni. The third was Jeremias 2. Greek Priesl, who had
travelled through Italy and France into England, and from thence
through the Low-Countries and Germany to Vienna, and intended sor
Conftantinople. He came into England to enquire after a young man
who was in a Ship which was firli taken by ah Algerine, and after-
wards by an Englifb man of war in the Levant. He was very kindly
used in England, and particularly at Cambridge. He did a great deal
os honour at Vienna, unto the Englifb Nation, declaring that they were
the molt civil, generous, and learned p.ople he had met with in all his
Travels, and that he no where found so many who could speak or un-
derhand .Greek, or who gave him so good satisfadion in all parts os
Knowledge.: And as a testimony os his resped and gratitude, requeu-
ed me to enclose a Greek Letter unto Dr. Pierfn, now Lord Biihop of
Chesier, and Dr. Barrow Mailer of Irinity College in Cambridge.
M sl men live here plentifully, there being abundance of all provi-
sion. They ha^e great quantity of Corn, which upon Scarcity, by
the help of the Danube, might be brought to them from remoter parts.
The Country affords such plenty of wine, that they send a considera-
ble quantity up the River. They have also rich wines out of Hungary
andand such variety, that there" are more than thirty severs 1
sorts of Wine to be sold in Vienna. , They are not also without good.
Beer. HalEadt in Aujlria adorns them Salt, where they make it
bv letting in water iqto the hollow parts of a Mountain,where it drinks
in the Salt os the Earth, and is afterwards let out and boiled up. This
assords great profit to the Emperor, and therefore the Hun-,
garian :a!t is not permitted to be brought higher than Prefburg.
They have also plenty of Sheep and Oxen ; but. for Oxen at present
they are also supplied srom Hungary, nor only from the Countries in
the Emperors Dominions, but from the Turkissi parts, by permisiion
of the Grand Seignior*, and they are brought hither by the Ealtern Com-
pany of Vienna. They eat much wild Boar, whereof the Fat is deli-
cious, like that of Vension with us. They want not Hares, Rabbets,
Partridges, Pheasants. A Foul called Hasenbendal, or Gallina Corylo-
rum, is much eileemed by them, which made me the more wonder
to meet withTome odd dishes at their Tables ; as GuinyEigs, divers
sorts of Snails, and Tortoifes. - •
The Danube, and many Rivers which run into it, afsord them plen-
t}7 of Fisli, extraordinary Carps, Erouts, Tenche^ Pikes, Eels, several
lor ts of Lampreys, and many sillies sinely coloured; the white Fish,
Crevjjes very large ; the bell come out of the River Swechet, not far
srom Vienna. They have also that Subhantial large fissi, called Schei-
den, or Silurus Gefneri, larger tha-n Pike, Salmon, cor any of our River
Filhes; but the great Fillies called ILaufons, or Hufones, in Johnjionus,
for largenels exceed all others ; some being twenty foot long. Some
think tins to be the same Fill? which JElian names Antacetus, and
speaks
Trade, hoping to find better Markers lor their Plagiaries and Depreda-
tions^
There are divers ormL,' who trade to Vienna, and many live in the
Town, among which I mot with three considerable perlons. One a
grave Abbot, who was sorced from his Convent by the ThH, upon sus-
picion that he cotrespcnded with thole oi Candia. Another,who went
by the name os Cotfant.inus Catacuzenos, and was of the Blood Royal
oi tlie Catacuxeni. The third was Jeremias 2. Greek Priesl, who had
travelled through Italy and France into England, and from thence
through the Low-Countries and Germany to Vienna, and intended sor
Conftantinople. He came into England to enquire after a young man
who was in a Ship which was firli taken by ah Algerine, and after-
wards by an Englifb man of war in the Levant. He was very kindly
used in England, and particularly at Cambridge. He did a great deal
os honour at Vienna, unto the Englifb Nation, declaring that they were
the molt civil, generous, and learned p.ople he had met with in all his
Travels, and that he no where found so many who could speak or un-
derhand .Greek, or who gave him so good satisfadion in all parts os
Knowledge.: And as a testimony os his resped and gratitude, requeu-
ed me to enclose a Greek Letter unto Dr. Pierfn, now Lord Biihop of
Chesier, and Dr. Barrow Mailer of Irinity College in Cambridge.
M sl men live here plentifully, there being abundance of all provi-
sion. They ha^e great quantity of Corn, which upon Scarcity, by
the help of the Danube, might be brought to them from remoter parts.
The Country affords such plenty of wine, that they send a considera-
ble quantity up the River. They have also rich wines out of Hungary
andand such variety, that there" are more than thirty severs 1
sorts of Wine to be sold in Vienna. , They are not also without good.
Beer. HalEadt in Aujlria adorns them Salt, where they make it
bv letting in water iqto the hollow parts of a Mountain,where it drinks
in the Salt os the Earth, and is afterwards let out and boiled up. This
assords great profit to the Emperor, and therefore the Hun-,
garian :a!t is not permitted to be brought higher than Prefburg.
They have also plenty of Sheep and Oxen ; but. for Oxen at present
they are also supplied srom Hungary, nor only from the Countries in
the Emperors Dominions, but from the Turkissi parts, by permisiion
of the Grand Seignior*, and they are brought hither by the Ealtern Com-
pany of Vienna. They eat much wild Boar, whereof the Fat is deli-
cious, like that of Vension with us. They want not Hares, Rabbets,
Partridges, Pheasants. A Foul called Hasenbendal, or Gallina Corylo-
rum, is much eileemed by them, which made me the more wonder
to meet withTome odd dishes at their Tables ; as GuinyEigs, divers
sorts of Snails, and Tortoifes. - •
The Danube, and many Rivers which run into it, afsord them plen-
t}7 of Fisli, extraordinary Carps, Erouts, Tenche^ Pikes, Eels, several
lor ts of Lampreys, and many sillies sinely coloured; the white Fish,
Crevjjes very large ; the bell come out of the River Swechet, not far
srom Vienna. They have also that Subhantial large fissi, called Schei-
den, or Silurus Gefneri, larger tha-n Pike, Salmon, cor any of our River
Filhes; but the great Fillies called ILaufons, or Hufones, in Johnjionus,
for largenels exceed all others ; some being twenty foot long. Some
think tins to be the same Fill? which JElian names Antacetus, and
speaks