An Accompt Concerning the Baths of Austria and Hungary; as Also Some Stone-Quarrries, Talcum Rocks, &c. in Those Parts: By the Same Hand

An Accompt Concerning the Baths of Austria and Hungary; as Also Some Stone-Quarrries,Talcum Rocks, &c. in Those Parts: By the Same HandAuthor(s): Edward BrownSource: Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 5 (1670), pp. 1044-1051Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/101575 .

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(zo44) drank out of one ofthem twhen I was at th.etrwltr of Hemn grwnd hishoufe:: St was gildd 'over, and had a rich piece of Silver-ore, faftned in thermiddle of it, and this Infcription grav'd on the outfide,

Eifen ware rch, kupfer bin Iich, Silber trag Ich/ Gold bedeckt michi

i. . Copper I am, but Iron was of old, Silver I carry, cover'd am with Gold.

AN ACCOMPT

Concerning the Baths of Aufria and fIungary A alfjo fwe Stone-Quarrries, Talcum rocks, &c. in thofeprts : Sthe awme h4nd.

IN order to anfwer fQme of the other Qseries; I here prefent lyou with this Accompt concerninag Baths,and fome other fub- jeets, contained therein.

Baden is a little City in Atria, four German miles South- wardfrom Vienna, feated on a plain, but nigh unto a ridge of hills, which are the excurfions of MountCetiuw, It is much re- forted unto by reafQn of the Natural Baths of that place, wherein the Springs are fonumerous, as to affordconvenient Baths; two within the Town, five without the Wall, and 2 beyond a rivolet called Swechet.

The Dukes-Bath is thelargeft, about 20 feet fquare, in the middle of an houfe of the fame figure, built over it. The Va- pour paffes, through a tunnel of wood, at the top: and the Wa- ter is conveyed into the bottom of the Bath, at one corner, through woodden pipes and trees, under the Town-wall, from the Spring head, which rifeth at a little diftance Wetl-ward. The Springs of the reft of the Baths rife under them, and are let in through holes of the Plancher, for all the Baths are wain- fcoted, the feats, fides and bottoms being made of Firre. The Water for the moft part is clear and tranfparent, yet fomewhat blewifh, and maketh the skin appear pale in it, as doth the fmoak of Brimtone. It coioreth Metals (except Gold, whofe

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(zo44) drank out of one ofthem twhen I was at th.etrwltr of Hemn grwnd hishoufe:: St was gildd 'over, and had a rich piece of Silver-ore, faftned in thermiddle of it, and this Infcription grav'd on the outfide,

Eifen ware rch, kupfer bin Iich, Silber trag Ich/ Gold bedeckt michi

i. . Copper I am, but Iron was of old, Silver I carry, cover'd am with Gold.

AN ACCOMPT

Concerning the Baths of Aufria and fIungary A alfjo fwe Stone-Quarrries, Talcum rocks, &c. in thofeprts : Sthe awme h4nd.

IN order to anfwer fQme of the other Qseries; I here prefent lyou with this Accompt concerninag Baths,and fome other fub- jeets, contained therein.

Baden is a little City in Atria, four German miles South- wardfrom Vienna, feated on a plain, but nigh unto a ridge of hills, which are the excurfions of MountCetiuw, It is much re- forted unto by reafQn of the Natural Baths of that place, wherein the Springs are fonumerous, as to affordconvenient Baths; two within the Town, five without the Wall, and 2 beyond a rivolet called Swechet.

The Dukes-Bath is thelargeft, about 20 feet fquare, in the middle of an houfe of the fame figure, built over it. The Va- pour paffes, through a tunnel of wood, at the top: and the Wa- ter is conveyed into the bottom of the Bath, at one corner, through woodden pipes and trees, under the Town-wall, from the Spring head, which rifeth at a little diftance Wetl-ward. The Springs of the reft of the Baths rife under them, and are let in through holes of the Plancher, for all the Baths are wain- fcoted, the feats, fides and bottoms being made of Firre. The Water for the moft part is clear and tranfparent, yet fomewhat blewifh, and maketh the skin appear pale in it, as doth the fmoak of Brimtone. It coioreth Metals (except Gold, whofe

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( I04) colour i alfo heightens) tut\ing' therm iblck ln a F'few minutes. The Coyn of this Country, mnixt of C6ppeiltand SiVte(hving .T of Silver, and V of Copper, ) is in a miutces time turn'd from a white into a dark yellow, and foon afterbetomes black. To the Mofs and Plants, which it waflneth, it gives a fine green colour, and leaves often a fcum upon them of a Purple mixt with white. As it runs from the Spring-head, it fomewhat re- fembles the Sulphur-river in the way from Troli to Rome, but is not fo ftrong or ftinking, nor doth it incrutate its banks.

The Spring-head is alfo confiderable, inregard that it rifeth under a rocky hill at rome diftance from the entrance into it: For, I pafId to it, about the length of 40. yards,through an Ar- ched paffage cut in the rock, which is alfoa natural ftove, (as that of Tritola and Bajx ) made by the hot Bath water run- ning under it. Moftpart of this Cave is incruftated with a white, fubftance, by them called Salt-Peter, whereof I have ent you' fome. At the mourliof the Cave it becomes har4erand ftony. I cauled fome of the pipes, through which the Bath-water runso to be opened,and from the upper part of the pipe, took fome quantity of fineSulphur in powder, fomewhat like Ftowers of Brimffone; this being as'tw.ere, fublimed from the water, and not depofed, being found: in the upper part of the pipe. olekum Sulph. per campanam dropped into this water, is received into it quietly. olemtart. per deliquium caxfeth an ebullition, as in the naking of Tartarum- fitriolatum;

The fecond Bath within the Wall isv that of our Lady, about x foot broad, and 24 long. One end of itris under a Church of the famename. This is fuller of Sulphur than the reft, and more blew,and leaveth a yellow Flower uponthe boards, as theothers doe a white.

The third is the New Bath, out.of the Town nigh the Gate which when I faw was full of people finging.

The fourth, the few;s- Bath, which hath a partition in the middle to feparate the men from the Women,

The fifth, St. Yfohns Bath, of a Triangular form. The fixt th o .gga rs Batji alwayes- filallov,v fo as they tl

down in it.



(ro46) Tb9, (wc*Nh e t,ebAih o&ft jFHkyiCrDfs; aouttwb, athoims

fqwae,: ;hiefbar thlte&rgy, T r e,ight h, :Sainm ectrsrlj#tk, greener thanthe refd. The .in :h, :the:.Swer.,tha, Tet abhout with Stone-balaflres,

andcovrd with am.aoi fdnmeiCupola and Lanthorn. The water is very cleart In:he Steam of this Bath :have often icolour'd mony black,withoty touching(the Water : and ftaying only in thl¢ram, wlhtc'hlo ath.iis, thE buttons .of qny clothes, and whatele ofSilverthe Vapour could: come at, were colored yellow or guilded; and yet the water itfelf, once cold, changeth not the:colotrof Mtails, though boyled in it.

The:tirteft.of thefE Baths;hav.e not thei:hea qf the u!cees Bak 4 .t itin sgatnd.:They: fe no Guides, aswith us, buc dire& thbeh1fe.ves withia: horkttadm'd -tfl

Maers. 4dorff, feared under 'an Hill. on,the Eaft. fide of the river ZLey hach on/ely one BatiL -It rifeth unde ai Church,built over the Spring,hcad.: t.Thq water ofit is'c ukcwarm,and there- fore tiey boyl itin great Coppers, when they defte it hotter, and.bathb i Tubbs,'fiU'd;ith this boyled water,. From .tie-fxbb- ftance, which fticksto the Coppers in boyling, it is colleed, that it is imnpregnated with Sulphur, Salrtpeter'andiChalk. This water colouebch the fiotesin it of;a.fair green klie a' Turkois aad the S arn of it,whichb sc&fs w hei Mofsundir the Churchi turns' intodr9ops pf Gold dr Amber.

Dot:i, 'IHungarian miles from comorw in Hungary, famous for being watered with great numbers of Springs,.hath alib Suli phuieous Bjths, faid to be warm in Winter. I was there in March and tQober, and both times found their warmth very re- mils: fcarce perceiveable. In;colour they are blewifh, and to tafteacid. The S.eens-bath and the Great-sath rife in a Marfh, North-ward of theCat le. Theie is another Bath in.the Gover- nors garden within .thv Town. :They are ufed as thofe of Man- ners- dorf, by being boyl'd, and powr'd into Bathing tubbs.

At Bs.'k,, two: Hung:ar. mile. from' Freifjat, in a Meadow, I took notice of 15. Baths: Andthere h ve been more, but the river Waag eatet;. away the banks, and fwallows up the Baths, and into t!)ree of thefe 5. it hath alfo broke in. The Water of thefe is like to that of Baden in Aufria it leaves a white Sedi-

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(1x047) rient upoi, the MA' mnd -pla'ces it wadhetb, and tinStureth metalis black: wvhich-i experim,ented byvutn mnyit it i and ft'cking Come into the grou'nd-over -which the water paffeth, that part, which was in the g'round, retaine'd its own colour, and the -other part in the -Bat h-water- acquired a Coal-black, -1 hefe Bathes =r open, an veyht

The B3aths-o'fBoin;itz nigh the river Nvitra in Hungyary, are of amoderat genle heat,; delightfuill to bath -in, much beautifi'd

by Count. J'alI Palatine o ffHungary: And all of them covered under one4arge, roof, -The fia-t is the Noblemens Bath, built -of flon,e defce-ndcd:into on-all fides by' flone-fla'yres. Fo~ur more there are of Wooid, butvr ha-ndfom'ly and, well built.

At stgb', g Hungyarian miles*fom Newf u and 2 from clirem - ritz, neaC'to a rivol-et, ar divers Brso ra em n much frequented; :the waIter whiereof' is clear, and fi-nells of S'uiphur; the fedimn gre.It' colours the wood ovtr it green and black, but does nor, changre the' colour of mietals fo foon as MO'ft' Others. I left money i'n it a whole night, whichi

was yt- but faintly coloured. The Springosarife under-neath, and pafs thiorought the holes in' t"he plancher of the Baths. The heat thereof is anfwerable to t' e.Ki,ngs-Bathbin Engrand. hf Baths are 7. The fidl,tis the Noblemans Bath. The fecond, the Gentleman's. The'thi-d.,thie-County y-v mans,' -I bef'ourth,

theCoutr- womans. Th'ifh he Beg~ars-bath. The fixt, for- fuch as ar-e infe6ted witht the -Luew'encerea' The' -feventh the Bath of the Gyp fies;- of whomi there -are Man-y- in rhof"e p"a:rs. Thefe B~aths ar~e ina plain, eucompaffied en all fides W1 tit haills. The nio heft unto them are towards' the Eaft ; and it is the fame ridge of hills, hich on the other fide are fo rich in -Metals.

Gils-Hittenv, 'an Hungarian m'ile, or abou-t 7. Engliffi-miles from schemni'tz,) hatWfive Baths,; two of which are lag.IC depofes a red. fediment , and incrufrates the -w%--od and l eates of the Bath undoer, water with a ftony fubftance ; andi it guildeth Silver. Luc the moll remarkable of thefe Baths is that, which

iscalled the Sweatig Bath,- whofe hot Springs drain thorough an h'l,adfalit Bath, built to receiv'e them ; a-t one end of which, by afcending, I went into a Gave, which is made a noble Stove by the heat of thefe Thberme, and fo order'd with

K Seats,



(1048 ) Seats, that every one who fits in it, either by chufingan high- er or lower feat) may regulate his (weating, or injoy what de- gree of heat he defireth, This Cave,as alfo the fides of the Bath, are cove:ed,by t e continual dropping of thefe hot fprings, with a red, white and green fubftance: the red and green make the ber t.lew- but the white is ufed againft the Stone,and cu;eth Ul- cers; and fore backs of horfes.

Eifen-bach, about 4 Englifh miles from Glas-titten, and 5.or 6. from Schemniz, hath alfo hot Baths; which I fuppofe are thofe inquired after in your lat Queftion. Here are fent you divers pieces of that fediment and ftone,taken out of thefe Baths; and one, which I took from the end of a Spout, through which thefe Therma had formerlypafled. The wood ftill flicks to the bottom of it, but is not turned into ftone (as you may fee:) Yet 1 have feen great trees, plac'd at the top or fuperficies of the water in the Bath, which have fuffered petrifa6tion. Here are two convenient Baths, much frequentedi and a third, which is made by the water let out of the former, called the sn4akts-4th, from the number of Snakes coming into and delighting in it, when it is filled with thefe warm waters.

The natural Baths of Buda are efteem'd the nobleft of Eirope, not only in refped of the large and hot fprings, but the magni- ficence ofther Buildings. For the Turks bath very much, and, though little curious in moft of their private houfes, yet are they very fumptuous in their Publick Buildings , as their Chans or Caravan44ras, Mofches, Bridges and Baths declare.

There are 8 Baths, whereof I had opportunity to take notice during my ftay at Buda;; 3 towards the Eaft and South-Eaft- part of the City, in the way leading towards Conflarntinople; and 5, towards the Weft-end of the Town in the way towards old: offen, and Strigonium.

The firft,is a large open Bath at the foot of an high rocky hill, formerly called PurgAtorium, whereof the people have fome odd and fcruplous apprehenfions.

The fecond is cover'd with a Cupola and ftands nigh the fame Hii!, but more into the Town, and near a place where they ufe Tanning.

The third is called the ath of the Grewn liars, though at [prefent



(o04), prefert,zthey bte- of a r~ed c61lourej and it flands over againft the Cravamfara4. The wnter islor;'but tle~abl,i~ithout addition of cold water.It isAimpre.- gnaced wit-h .a,)PettrWyig jye,wbich difcovers it felfon the fides of the Bath upon t'he Spouts and oEher placies,andmrnaketh agray flone: And the Exhalation from the Bath,revcrberated'by. the Cupola,by the Irons exrenr ded from one Col'umn to another, .and by the Capitals of the Pillars, for.. meth- long.Ptones*Iike Ice4ides, which- hang to -allI the faid pl~ices j fuch as may be obferv'd in many fubterrane'ous Grotto's, and particularly in Ex.. '1lrNd in Ok!y-hde in Somerfet..fZ%re, and Pooles-hole in Darby-/hre.

The water islet out at night, whenthie women havecdone bathing,who often flay late. The Bath is round fet about with large Pillars fupporting a Cupola, wvhich hath- openings to let out the Rleam thereof;- and yet the whole room continues to be an hot .fove.

The Bith s of the Weft-end of th'e Town are x. Talloilli or the Bath of the Table ; a fmall Bath covered : the Water whitel, and of a Sulphureous fmnell. They drink of'this as9 well as bath in it. What they drink, ithey re- cive from a Spout, bringing the Water into this place. I delivered afi-,~e-'

fol:.piece to -a Turk, bathinig in it, to guild for me, -which he did in about a minute,3 by rubbing it between his fingers, while the hot water fell from the fpout upon it.

z. Brart Degri'm:nel, or the Bath of, the powder-mi/I. It. rifes in an open pond near the high way,-and mixeth with the frelh Springs, fo that the pond is of a whitith colour in one patt, and clear in the ocher, as alfco cold and hot- in feveral p,trrs. This conveyed crofs the high way into a Powder..mill, becornmes ufeful in maklng of Gun-powder. 'I hey conceive bere, chat this Bath communicates withEtheSulphurcous Springs atD-otir,( many rriles diftant.

3. Cm'itoculige, the little Bath or the Bath of the Sai"nt; for which name theTurks give a fuper&titious reafon.Tis kept by Turkifb Monks-The Bath, where the Springs arife, ,is fo hot as fcarce to be endured;- but being let out into another bathing place at fome diftance,it becomes tolerable and fit for ufe. This watecr hith neither- colour, fmelil, nor tafte different from Common water, and depofeth no fedimente; onely the fides'of the Bach are green, and have a fungous fubftance all over.

4. Kap/ib, a very noble Bath, but part of the buildings was confu. med. this year (t669) by a great fire which happn'd in Butda; but is by this time repaired by the Turks. The water is very hot,. not without a petrifying juyce in it. ThieBuilding about is eight fquare, with anoble Bath in the middle:- with a circle of a Trench of water about it for the better ornament. On every tide it has a Nicbhio,wherein is afountain. In the middle of che Antichamber (where they leave their cloaths) there is alfo a fair Stone, bafon and a fountain.

5. 1 he Bath of Ve~libe,y j which hath a firong Sulphureous fmnel!, and a K z PeC



petrifying juyce in it; and'isfI> hot, th,atto make 'ittolerab!e,i'trequires the addition ofc'old water. fThis istl-ie niob.left i3athofany. The Anti-chamber very I trge, the Bath-room cap Xcious, and high-4-rched, and adorned with

5.Cpola's~ one a very f,,,ir one, overftbe,great round Blath in the middle. and one leffer, over eachi of the 4 conr;weeaeeter Baths or Bath-I Rloves for more private ufe; in thefe the T.-lurks take off tihe hair of. their Bodies by a pfilothrum mixt wich foap.-- it being -not their cuiloion to have any hair, except on thecir beards; -and,a lock on~ the crown of th'eir heads.

Twele Pllar fuportthegreat Cupola, between 8 whereof are fountains of the hot wvater, and between the othier are places to fit down, where the Barbers and BaE~i-men attend. ..And each of thefie placts have .2 ciflerns of free-flone, into Which are let in !hot Bathi-water and alfo cold -water., to be

r 'xcad tempered as every one pIeafeth. 7Wen- bathe .in the 'morning, ~and Wvjomen in thle afternoon. Whien anyl

mani intends to bathe, ~having-cntred,the firft rooms, he findes there divers fervants attending,~ and furnifhing himn with a clo-th and apron.. Then he puts off his apparel, and having put on the apron, he epitreth thle Id room, wherein thiegre,at Bath is, and fits on theC(ide of thie Bathi, or betweenathe Pillars nigh afountain; where the Barbe-r firongly rubs him with his hand opened, flretching out his armes, and lifting them up; after which the part-y bathe-th. Thlen, if he be a- fubjeO of the G. Signors, or, it be- the cufioom of his Countrey, he hath his hiead .flaved, and. if a young man,his beard, except the upper-lip. Next, the Barber rubs his breaft, badk, arms anld legs, witli an hiir-cloth, while he eithier fitteth,, or lyeth with his face dow'nward;- then, wafbes his head with foap', and after throws-cold water upon him all over, his Body; and fo the party walks about in thie Aca~m of the Bath for a time.

The fe Baths are made ufe of two wayes, either by entring into the wa- te,or fitting about the Bath in the fleam. For the vapour of' the Bath

makes the, whole room a (love ; and moft fweat as long as they fray in it; and fome enter noLt the water at all., but have it po-wr'd upop them or elfle o.nly continue in the fleam of the Bathi; -which fufficiently provok-eth fweat.

So mech of the 11aths, Upon the ride of Mount C4lenh'e7g,- towards the, North are Stones marked with Trees and Leaives. in th-eHermitage of the Camaldulenfe.V, feated upon. a Peak, of this hill, I faw fair ones,, w1ith whkhl they pav'd the walk in their Gairdens. This place is 2 ,Ge-rmani milles from

Not far from Manner:-dorf is the Em-peror's ..,94rry of Stone,, Out Of whichi are made thle befi Buildings ini Vienna: in whi'ch,I whcre-foever th,ere is a cleft or feparatio n of one ftone from another, the water falling betwvixt them, leaves a petriaication, thereby,a"s'twere,healing thle wound, b,y matking a fl½ny collw-~, not exaaly like the pirts,which it. joins together. ?I

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(1105x) An Englifh mile from Freij/ott in Hng4r.y North-ward, is a Quarry

of Stone,. out of which many great Stones are digged , tranfparent aud refembling Sugarcandy.

At Bgncal, two Hungar. miles from Fredf4t North-ward, is a Q a r- ry of white flone, .nigh the Hot Bathis of that place; over wbich is a Ilay of Chalk of about a yard thick, 'very beautiful to the Eye , as being of all c'olors, except green; fo finely mixt, flreaked, and fha- ded, that it furpaffeth Marble-paper; and the water dropping upon it, doth as twere varnifh it.

At schemnitz, in H-ungary, famous for Silver-Mines., is an high perpen- dicular Rock, part of which, from thle t'op to the bottom, i s naiturally tin&tur'd withi a fTinings fair blew-and green: And I have hieard from a Spaniard whio liv'd long in the Weft-Indies, th at there is alfo a rock, lik-e this nigh to tlae Silver-mines,in Peru.

The Mountain of Cljfura, being a part of Mount Hxmrn, as alfo Mount -Pyrlipe (bothi which I piffed over travelling from Be/grade towards Laviffi in Theffal;) doe flitne lIIke Silver, and day and night, either by the ligt.ht of the San or Moon, afford a glittering pleafant fhel-w, cauifed by the great quantity of Aiu/covy-gleff, wherewith thefe Hills abound. There are alfo Talcum-rocksr nigh Spitall in upper Carinthia, as I have been informed by M. DonelLan,who liveth~ there. -I am uinwilling to omit an Hill nigh Sarvitza, two dayes journey on thlis fide Lariffla, whichi confifls of an earth of a fine red colourl, out of which the red E-arthen Veffelis of that Country are made ; as alfo the great number of AciduL4 nigh Tranfchin in Hunglary, there being 321 plentiful fprings of them; Ilikewife an HAot Bath nigh Bellacherquta in Bmlg4ria, it be-ing fcicua- ted farr from any -habitation, yet well built by the Turks, and very re- frefhin'g to Travellours. it haci. a red f-ediment', and m iketh a gray flone.

Being at Larjfla in The fal/y, where the Gr.- Segnor hath long refided, tIunderftood that he. hid p 3ffed a good part (if th"e hiot Sumnmer of 1 66 9.

'upon the neighibouring mount olyrnpim; Oknd. by the i,nterpreters to ihe E-mperours Refident, the Iuflrrifl7' Sigo di Cafa novg, (who were ob- liged to attend thie SIt4ltn upon the. mountaini) I was inf,-orm'd that there was a S1pring of a whitifh water upon that Hill, which w dra r.k o f by miany perfons in their great heait and thiirfi, coniti ed, by afcending the mount-tain, buit proved very deflru&xve unto them, in daVeS, they t"hen. complaining of an hieavinefs and coldnefs of tirStomacks till they d~yed.

.A4n Accouint offome Bocky. Thbere being lately fallen i'nto our hands three Book: written by fevu7al All.m

th"urs, conctrning the ProduIiion of the Wavrlad, all thr,ee pretendirz to affert and con-flrm -what is delivere-d by Mofes in th'1e flrfl of Genefils, ib ,Wgh they do it differcnt ways; W /e thmfght, i,,- woulkd not be un-acce p-

(1105x) An Englifh mile from Freij/ott in Hng4r.y North-ward, is a Quarry

of Stone,. out of which many great Stones are digged , tranfparent aud refembling Sugarcandy.

At Bgncal, two Hungar. miles from Fredf4t North-ward, is a Q a r- ry of white flone, .nigh the Hot Bathis of that place; over wbich is a Ilay of Chalk of about a yard thick, 'very beautiful to the Eye , as being of all c'olors, except green; fo finely mixt, flreaked, and fha- ded, that it furpaffeth Marble-paper; and the water dropping upon it, doth as twere varnifh it.

At schemnitz, in H-ungary, famous for Silver-Mines., is an high perpen- dicular Rock, part of which, from thle t'op to the bottom, i s naiturally tin&tur'd withi a fTinings fair blew-and green: And I have hieard from a Spaniard whio liv'd long in the Weft-Indies, th at there is alfo a rock, lik-e this nigh to tlae Silver-mines,in Peru.

The Mountain of Cljfura, being a part of Mount Hxmrn, as alfo Mount -Pyrlipe (bothi which I piffed over travelling from Be/grade towards Laviffi in Theffal;) doe flitne lIIke Silver, and day and night, either by the ligt.ht of the San or Moon, afford a glittering pleafant fhel-w, cauifed by the great quantity of Aiu/covy-gleff, wherewith thefe Hills abound. There are alfo Talcum-rocksr nigh Spitall in upper Carinthia, as I have been informed by M. DonelLan,who liveth~ there. -I am uinwilling to omit an Hill nigh Sarvitza, two dayes journey on thlis fide Lariffla, whichi confifls of an earth of a fine red colourl, out of which the red E-arthen Veffelis of that Country are made ; as alfo the great number of AciduL4 nigh Tranfchin in Hunglary, there being 321 plentiful fprings of them; Ilikewife an HAot Bath nigh Bellacherquta in Bmlg4ria, it be-ing fcicua- ted farr from any -habitation, yet well built by the Turks, and very re- frefhin'g to Travellours. it haci. a red f-ediment', and m iketh a gray flone.

Being at Larjfla in The fal/y, where the Gr.- Segnor hath long refided, tIunderftood that he. hid p 3ffed a good part (if th"e hiot Sumnmer of 1 66 9.

'upon the neighibouring mount olyrnpim; Oknd. by the i,nterpreters to ihe E-mperours Refident, the Iuflrrifl7' Sigo di Cafa novg, (who were ob- liged to attend thie SIt4ltn upon the. mountaini) I was inf,-orm'd that there was a S1pring of a whitifh water upon that Hill, which w dra r.k o f by miany perfons in their great heait and thiirfi, coniti ed, by afcending the mount-tain, buit proved very deflru&xve unto them, in daVeS, they t"hen. complaining of an hieavinefs and coldnefs of tirStomacks till they d~yed.

.A4n Accouint offome Bocky. Thbere being lately fallen i'nto our hands three Book: written by fevu7al All.m

th"urs, conctrning the ProduIiion of the Wavrlad, all thr,ee pretendirz to affert and con-flrm -what is delivere-d by Mofes in th'1e flrfl of Genefils, ib ,Wgh they do it differcnt ways; W /e thmfght, i,,- woulkd not be un-acce p-



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An Accompt Concerning the Baths of Austria and Hungary; as Also Some Stone-Quarrries, Talcum Rocks, &c. in Those Parts: By the Same Hand