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chang’d its condition so much as sines the List
Conquest. Its present Matters have in a manner
fill’d the neighbouring Hill with heaps of Forts
and Trenches pil’d upon each other, and by so do-
ing have not only possess’d themselves of thq
high Grounds that command the City, but co-
ver’d it with the Cannon of Forts.
BRISACK.
They make several little Knacks in this City
of a sort of Agat found in the Neighbourhood.
’Tis four hours Journey from Friburg to Brisack.
I am not at all surpriz’d that this City was for-
merly call’d the * Billow os the Empire, for both
'5 its Figure and Strength delerve that Title. Ima-
* Twas alsi
nam'd the Ci-
satia, and the gin you see a Hillock, which seems to have been
Key of Ger- artificially rais’d of Beds of Earth laid on purpose,
many. jn t[ie middle of a Country smooth as Ice. On
one end of this little Hill or Billow stands the
Town ; the Citadel is on the other ; and both are
encompass’d with an excellent Fortification at
the Foot of the Hillock. There is a Stone Bridge
over the Rhine, extreamly well fortified on the
side next France.
SCHELE- Schelefiat is in the lower Alsatia, four leagues
ST AT, sor-from Brifack, and three from the Rhine. It is
merf an im- sjtuated in a siat Country, not commanded by
any Enemy, and enclos’d with Fortifications that
are of the same nature with those of the last men-
tion’d Cities. These places cannot be describ’d
S T R A S- without repeating the word Fortification a hundred
BURG, times in a quarter of an hour. Strafburg is a
sormerly an Prodigy which in that respest surpaises all the
imperial City, otfier fortified places on the Rhine. The Plat-
form I have sent you will give you a clearer Idea
of it than the exastest description I could make.
It was formerly an Imperial City, and follow’d
the Do&rinof Luther.
You may remember that this Great, Fair and
Potent City fell into the French King’s Hands
Sept, ’o.1 168a. The
chang’d its condition so much as sines the List
Conquest. Its present Matters have in a manner
fill’d the neighbouring Hill with heaps of Forts
and Trenches pil’d upon each other, and by so do-
ing have not only possess’d themselves of thq
high Grounds that command the City, but co-
ver’d it with the Cannon of Forts.
BRISACK.
They make several little Knacks in this City
of a sort of Agat found in the Neighbourhood.
’Tis four hours Journey from Friburg to Brisack.
I am not at all surpriz’d that this City was for-
merly call’d the * Billow os the Empire, for both
'5 its Figure and Strength delerve that Title. Ima-
* Twas alsi
nam'd the Ci-
satia, and the gin you see a Hillock, which seems to have been
Key of Ger- artificially rais’d of Beds of Earth laid on purpose,
many. jn t[ie middle of a Country smooth as Ice. On
one end of this little Hill or Billow stands the
Town ; the Citadel is on the other ; and both are
encompass’d with an excellent Fortification at
the Foot of the Hillock. There is a Stone Bridge
over the Rhine, extreamly well fortified on the
side next France.
SCHELE- Schelefiat is in the lower Alsatia, four leagues
ST AT, sor-from Brifack, and three from the Rhine. It is
merf an im- sjtuated in a siat Country, not commanded by
any Enemy, and enclos’d with Fortifications that
are of the same nature with those of the last men-
tion’d Cities. These places cannot be describ’d
S T R A S- without repeating the word Fortification a hundred
BURG, times in a quarter of an hour. Strafburg is a
sormerly an Prodigy which in that respest surpaises all the
imperial City, otfier fortified places on the Rhine. The Plat-
form I have sent you will give you a clearer Idea
of it than the exastest description I could make.
It was formerly an Imperial City, and follow’d
the Do&rinof Luther.
You may remember that this Great, Fair and
Potent City fell into the French King’s Hands
Sept, ’o.1 168a. The