A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places / By Edward Brown, M.D.

  • Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.
Date:
1673
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Credit: A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places / By Edward Brown, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No River affordeth fo large and peopled Iflands. •> Be¬ tween Vicegrad and facia, there is a fair and large Iflands called St. Jdndrew s Ifland. Another a litfie below Bud'a, againft the weft fide of which Hands extendi ngforty miles; and exceeds that of the IJle of May, containing many Villages in it; upon pare whereof the Turkifh Forces en- camped,when they came to raife the Chrijlian Siege at Bn- da,and was the great omifiion and error of the Chriftians, that they Fortified not in that Ifland. Another, againft Mohatch: another,about the entrance of the Dravm: and a new one hard by Belgrade, made by the fetling of the Silt or Oufe brought down by the Savm, and the Danube ; where thirty five years ago there was no face of an Ifland, but is now full of Trees ; how this may advantage, or dif- * advantage Belgrade, future times may fhew. But the Turks are fofecure and fearlefs of any Forces, that may ever hurt them in thefe parts, that they have no confidera- tion of fuch things. And allowing the River Leyta to be the boundary of Jujlria, the Ifland of Scbut, or bifida Ci- tuornm will prove moft confiderab'e of any; containing many good Towns, as Comora, Samarien ; befides very many Villages. And pafling through it , I found it well peopled, and ordered againft incurfions; wherein there have been divers, formerly made by Turks, Tartars, and Rebellious Forces. No River whatfoever, fo far from its difeharge into the Sea, affordeth more Naval Veffels of ftrength and fuffi- ctency for Fight; nor hath any afforded the like fignal engagements and encounters,at this diftance from the Sea. The Emperour hath fome Veffels of War handforaly built, like Gallies at Vienna, F res burg, and Comora; and an Jr- fenal for provifion of many, upon occafion. The Turk at Strigonium, Buda, Belgrade , and other places bel¬ low. At