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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    Jews y but in this journey I inet with none, or fuch as I could not well diftinguifh , for though there were then whole Villages of Jews in Aujiria, yet they were prohibi¬ ted in Styria, and feverely banifhed out of Carmthia , fo that for thofe Jews who travelled between Venice and Vienna; the Emperour difpenceth with them as to their oRuft, and the Venetiansas to their red Har. To lay any thing of Vienna may feem fuperfluous , di¬ vers having written thereof, and it might fail better in, if ever I fhouid defcribe my journey from the Low Coun¬ try s to Vienna , and from Vienna by the way of Moravia, Bohemia, Mifnia, Saxonia unto Hamburg %y mean while I would no longer defer to give fome account of places lefs known orlefs defcribed in Fannonian, Dacian, Mt- fian,Grecian, Noricum, and Illyrian Countrys, which in their proper order are delivered in this Work* . In my travels through Hungaria and the Imperial Pro¬ vinces, I could not but take notice of fome Affertions which I could not verifie. Belgrade is commonly counted to be in Hungaria, and fo defcribed by fome Authours, but if ftridily confidered it is feated mServia, or Majia Superior, beyond the bounds of Hungaria. That St. Jerome was a Fannonian may be granted, buD that he was a Native of Hungaria * flrickly taken may be doubted, for he was born in Stridon, now conceived to be Siredon or Streyna , on the inward or Weftern fide of the River before it runneth into the Dravus, and is ac¬ counted in Steirmark. It is faid by Flinie Cur Jus Savi 150. mille pafftwm, that the courfe of the Savus is ari hundred a ad fifty mijer, which if accounted from the head is much too fhort, and not much more then half the meafure thereof That the River Savus runneth into the .Draws, fee ms affirmed