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A Journey from Vienna to Hamburg. 173
Hat, which seemed so strange to the Germans, that I was obliged to
confirm it to them, by alluring them that I had divers times wore inch a
Garter my self.
Leaving this busy and trading City of Leipfick, I direded my Jour-
ney unto Magdeburg, and travelled through a plain Country, between
the River Sala and the Elbe, by Landfberg, nigh to Peterfdorff, where
there is a sinal! Hill which overlooks all the Country,next to AW#^,th0
Residence of the Prince of Anhalt, then to Caln, and over the River Sa-
lament it runs into the Elbe, which arising at Mount Fichtelbergpcm
hastens towards it. Fichtelberg is a confiderable Mountain, near which
are divers Mines, Baths, and Mineral-waters, os which Gafpar Brujcbi-
ns hath written a Description.And from it arise four Rivers, running to
the four quarters of the World. The Maine or Mrenus, towards rhe
West ; the Flab or Eabus, towards the South 5 the AEger towards the
East ; and the forementioned Sala towards the North. These four af-
terwards fall into the three greatest Rivers of Germany, the Danube, the
Rhine, and the Elbe. Then to Sals or Saltz, a place noted for Salt-
spnngs, and that night to Magdeburg.
Parthenopolis, or Magdeburg, is seated by the River Elie, formerly MagLhwg.
the Metropolitan City of Germany, now under the Marquiss of Bran-
denburg, of very great Circuit, but little more than half built again,
since it was sacked and burnt by Tilly, and Thirty six thousand perfons
put to the Sword and destroyeeb I could not but observe the ruinous
and destrudtive effects of the late wars in many parts of Germany, but
not in any so great and ssourilhing a place as this : And a man might
think, that after this great destrudtion of Houses and People, this
place should not be able to stand a Siege ; yet a few years after it was
besieged by General Hatzfield, unto whom (Bannier the Swede not
being able to relieve it) it was yielded. The Cathedral Church is ve-
ry fair, and built like an Englifb one, by the Emperor Gtho the First,
and his Empress Editha, an Englifb Woman, Daughter unto King Ed¬
mund, whose Effigies in Stone I law in the Church, with nineteen Tuns
of GW by her, which sire gave thereto. And to say the truth, Eng-
lifb money hath done great things in Germany, for hereby, or with a
good part thereof, this Church was built or endowed. Leopoldits,
Duke of Auftria, built the old Walls of Vienna with the ransom of
King Richard the First, whom he detained in his return through Au-
ftria from the Holy Land. King Edward the First sent a great Sum
of Money unto the Emperor Adolphus fee the railing of Souldiers in
Germany, which the Emperor employed in purchasing a great part os
Mifnia for himsels.
TMe. Lutheran Churches are handsom, and their Pulpits , are extra-
ordinary noble, and richly set oss, as I observed, through all Saxony,
Norimberg, and where they are Mailers of the Places, and have not
their Churches only by permission ; here they lhewed me in the Ca-
thedral Church of St. Maurice, the Statuds of the wife Virgins smil-
ing, and of the five soolifb Virgins lamenting, which are very well ex-
pressed : They lliewed me allo two odd Reliques, which they flill
kept as Rareties ; that is, the Bason wherein Pilate walhed his hands.,
when he declared himself free from the Blood of our Saviour ; and
the Ladder whereon the Cock slood when he crowed after St. Peters,
denying os Christ.
Hat, which seemed so strange to the Germans, that I was obliged to
confirm it to them, by alluring them that I had divers times wore inch a
Garter my self.
Leaving this busy and trading City of Leipfick, I direded my Jour-
ney unto Magdeburg, and travelled through a plain Country, between
the River Sala and the Elbe, by Landfberg, nigh to Peterfdorff, where
there is a sinal! Hill which overlooks all the Country,next to AW#^,th0
Residence of the Prince of Anhalt, then to Caln, and over the River Sa-
lament it runs into the Elbe, which arising at Mount Fichtelbergpcm
hastens towards it. Fichtelberg is a confiderable Mountain, near which
are divers Mines, Baths, and Mineral-waters, os which Gafpar Brujcbi-
ns hath written a Description.And from it arise four Rivers, running to
the four quarters of the World. The Maine or Mrenus, towards rhe
West ; the Flab or Eabus, towards the South 5 the AEger towards the
East ; and the forementioned Sala towards the North. These four af-
terwards fall into the three greatest Rivers of Germany, the Danube, the
Rhine, and the Elbe. Then to Sals or Saltz, a place noted for Salt-
spnngs, and that night to Magdeburg.
Parthenopolis, or Magdeburg, is seated by the River Elie, formerly MagLhwg.
the Metropolitan City of Germany, now under the Marquiss of Bran-
denburg, of very great Circuit, but little more than half built again,
since it was sacked and burnt by Tilly, and Thirty six thousand perfons
put to the Sword and destroyeeb I could not but observe the ruinous
and destrudtive effects of the late wars in many parts of Germany, but
not in any so great and ssourilhing a place as this : And a man might
think, that after this great destrudtion of Houses and People, this
place should not be able to stand a Siege ; yet a few years after it was
besieged by General Hatzfield, unto whom (Bannier the Swede not
being able to relieve it) it was yielded. The Cathedral Church is ve-
ry fair, and built like an Englifb one, by the Emperor Gtho the First,
and his Empress Editha, an Englifb Woman, Daughter unto King Ed¬
mund, whose Effigies in Stone I law in the Church, with nineteen Tuns
of GW by her, which sire gave thereto. And to say the truth, Eng-
lifb money hath done great things in Germany, for hereby, or with a
good part thereof, this Church was built or endowed. Leopoldits,
Duke of Auftria, built the old Walls of Vienna with the ransom of
King Richard the First, whom he detained in his return through Au-
ftria from the Holy Land. King Edward the First sent a great Sum
of Money unto the Emperor Adolphus fee the railing of Souldiers in
Germany, which the Emperor employed in purchasing a great part os
Mifnia for himsels.
TMe. Lutheran Churches are handsom, and their Pulpits , are extra-
ordinary noble, and richly set oss, as I observed, through all Saxony,
Norimberg, and where they are Mailers of the Places, and have not
their Churches only by permission ; here they lhewed me in the Ca-
thedral Church of St. Maurice, the Statuds of the wife Virgins smil-
ing, and of the five soolifb Virgins lamenting, which are very well ex-
pressed : They lliewed me allo two odd Reliques, which they flill
kept as Rareties ; that is, the Bason wherein Pilate walhed his hands.,
when he declared himself free from the Blood of our Saviour ; and
the Ladder whereon the Cock slood when he crowed after St. Peters,
denying os Christ.