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A29826	A brief account of some travels in divers parts of Europe viz Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli : through a great part of Germany, and the Low-Countries : through Marca Trevisana, and Lombardy on both sides of the Po : with some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, and the baths and mineral waters in those parts : as also, the description of many antiquities, habits, fortifications and remarkable places / by Edward Brown.	Brown, Edward, 1644-1708.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5111; ESTC R7514	234,342	240

Passaw 120 Peneus 36 Petronel 14 Pfalts Castle 117 Philippus the Emperors Coyn 11 Pohunt 187 Pont du gard 210 Ponteba or Ponte Fella 86 Prague 162 Presburg 16 Prestina 33 Pyrlipe 31 Pythagon 35 Q. A Quarry of Stone 190 Quicksilver Mines 82 Quintin 109 R. RAb 16 Raspelhuis 97 Ratisbone 126 Relicks 183 Rivers 178 Roermonde 111 Roterdam 92 S. SAal 77 Saltatio Pyrrhica 10 Salt-mines 71 Samandria 28 Saviniere 186 Saxonies Electors rarities 167 Scaldis or Scheld 108 Scaliger Joseph 94 Schadt Wien 75 Schella 56 Schemnitz 57 Schinta 56 Sclavonian Language 8 Scopia 32 Sene or Sone 19 Sestri 221 Simerin a great mountain 75 Silver-mines 57 169 Skurman Anna Maria 102 Sleds of divers shapes 152 Sleeping in the night the manner in divers Countrys 156 Snow 87 Souches 143 Spà 186 Spire 122 Stable house at Dresden 167 Stadt 177 St Stephen's Church at Vienna 138 Stone Quarry 190 Straubing 127 Sultan Mahomet Han 37 Sultana 38 T. TAiamento or Tiliaventum 86 Tengnagels tomb 135 Ter-Vere 106 Teutonick order 123 Thessalia 40 Tiberius's Triumphal Arch 15 Tilts and Turnaments 175 Tirnaw 71 Tongres 109 Tonnelet 187 Topolchan 57 Tornovo 42 Treasure of the Emperor 147 Trenschin 70 Treviso 86 Trinity mine 57 Tun at Heidelberg 122 Turkish Tombs 50 V. VAcia or Waitzen 20 St Veit in Carinthia 76 Verona 200 Viaven 103 Vicegrade 20 Vicenza 199 Vienna 121 Villaco or Villach 87 Vitriol mine 65 Vlassing 107 Vomitoria 209 Vtrecht 101 Vnicorn's horns 101 W. WAllensteyn's Palace 164 Windschacht-mine 58 Wolfgangus Lazius 136 Z. ZEmbla 99 Zigeth 25 The Ziment new and old 68 Zirchnitz lake 80 Zisca 161 Znaim 161 Zoldfeldt with its antiquities 77 FINIS A Catalogue of some Books printed for BENJAMIN TOOKE at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard FOLIO HErodoti Halicarnassaei Historiarum Libri 9. Gr. Lat. Francisci Suarez Tractatus de Legibus ac Deo Legislatore The Works of the most Reverend Father in God John Bramhall D. D. late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland With his Life Walsh's History of the Irish Remonstrance A Collection of all the Statutes now in force in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England Bishop Sanderson's Sermons Sir Hum Winch's Book of Entries Skinneri Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae M. T. Ciceronis Opera omnia cum decem Indicibus 2. Vol. Heylyn's Cosmography in 4. Books Matth. Paris Historia Angliae Dr. Nalson's Impartial Collections from the beginning of the late Rebellion to the murther of K. Charles the I. 2. Vol. Heraclitus Ridens or a Dialogue between jest and Earnest concerning the times compleat or any of them single QUARTO SEparation of Churches from Episcopal Government as practised by the present Nonconformists Schismatical By Henry Dodwel M. A. Dumoulin's Vindication of the Protestant Religion Phocena or the Anatomy of a Porpess dissected at Gresham-College The True Widow a Comedy By Tho. Shadwel The Beauty of Unity in a Sermon preached at Preston by Rich. Wroe B. D. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester The Vanity of the Dissenters Plea for then Separation A Sermon preached before the King at Windsor By Rob. ●●hfeighton D. D. Of Perjury a Sormon preached at the Allizes at Chester By John Allen M. A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester A Sermon preached before the Hon. House of Commons Nov. 5. 1680. By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor of the City of London on the Feast of St. Michael By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the King at White-hall Jan. 25. 168● being the feast of St. Paul's Conversion By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Published by his late Majesty's special command The present miseries and mischiefs of sin discoursed in a Sermon before the Lord Mayor of London By Robbert Wensely Vicar of Chestlunt A discourse concerning the Devotions of the Church of Rome especially as compared with those of the Church of England Oratio Anniversaria habita in Theatro Coll. Med. Lond. a Georgio Rogers ejusdem Collegi Socio A Collection of Cases and other Discourses lately written to recover Dissenters to the Communion of the Church of England By some Divines of the City of London In two Volumes Causae Veteris Epitaphium Accedit Caussa Vetus conclamata Concavum Cappo-cloacorum or a view in little of the great Wit and Honesty contained under a brace of Caps A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Sir Roger Bradshaigh Knight and Baronet By Richard Wroe B. D. A Sermon preached before the King at Winchester Sept. 9. 1683. By Francis Turner D. D. Dean of Windsor A Sermon preached before Sir Henry Tulse Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Court of Aldermen at St. Bridgets on Easter Munday 1684. By Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester Almoner to his Majesty A Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall Nov. 5. 1684. By Francis Lord Bishop of Ely and Almoner to his Majesty The New Testament in the Irish Tongue and Character The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory M. A. of Christs Church in Oxon. In two parts A Brief Account of Ancient Chur ch Government with a Reflection on several modern writers of the Presbyterians Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia ex pervetustis monumemis fideliter inter se collatis eruta at que exsacris ac prophanis Literis prim arum orbis gentium tam Genealogicis quam chronologicis susslaminata praesidijs c. cum Catalogo Regum in Britannia Scotorum Authore Roderico O Flaterly Armigero A Discourse concerning a Guide in matters of Faith A Discourse concerning Invocation of Saints A Discourse concerning the Unity of the Catholick Church maintained in the Church of England A Discourse concerning Articular Consession as it is prescribed by the Council of Trent and practised in the Church of Rome Octavo and Twelves Two Letters of Advice 1. For the susception of Holy Orders 2. For Studies Theological With a Catalogue of the Christian Writers and Genuin Works that are extant of the first three Cenurys 8vo Some Considerations of Present Concernment how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another persuasion c. 8vo A Reply to Mr. Baxter's pretended Confutation of a Book entitled Separation of Churches from Episcopal Government c. proved Schismatical To which are added three Letters written to him in the year 1673. 8vo A Discourse concerning the One Altar and the One Priesthood insisted on by the ancients in their Disputes against Schism 8vo Dissertationes Cyprianicae 8vo Two short Discourses against the Romanists 12o. These six written by Henry Dodwell M. A. late Fellow of Trinity College in Dublin Navigation and Commerce their Original and Progress By John Evelyn Esquire 8vo Of Gifts and Offices in the publick Workship of God In three parts By Edward Wetenhall D. D. Lord Bishop of Corke The Sceptical Chymist By Robert Boyle Esquire The Degrees of Consanguinity and Affinity By Robert Dixon D. D. 8vo Ele●chus Antiquitatum Albionensium Per Dan. Langhornium S. T. B. 8vo Chronicon Regum Anglorum ab Hengisto usque ad Heptarchiae finem Per Dan. Langhornium 8vo Poems and Songs By Thomas Flatman 4 th Edition 8vo Poems written on several Occasions By N. Tate 2 d Edition 8vo The French Gardinar out of French By John Evelyn Esquire 8vo Ataxiae Obstaculum 8vo Gardinerus de Trinitate contra Sandium The Catechism of the Church of England with Marginal Notes By Edward Wetenhal D. D. Lord Bishop of Corke Phaedri Tabulae ex recensione Chr. Wase The Country Persons advice to his Parishoners 8vo Cartes's Metaphysical Meditations with his Life By William Molyneux Esquire The Life of the Bishop of Munster The Aerial Noctilura 8vo New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca both by Robert Boyle Esquire Idem Latin 12o. Thealma Clearchus a Pastoral History Cooper's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae Vulgar Errors in Divinity removed A Manual of Examples for School Exercise Of the Subject of Church Power in whom it resides By Simon Lowth Vicar of Cosmus-Blene in the Diocese of Canterbury Dictionarium Trilingue secundum Locos Communes nominibus usitatioribus Anglicis Latinis Graecis Operâ Johannis Raij M. A. et Societatis Regie Sodalis 8vo Reliquiae Wottonianae 8vo Herbert's Country Person 12o. The Form of sound Words By Robert Wensely Vicar of Chestlunt 12o. An Enquiry into the Ministry of the Presbyterians 12o. Aero-Chalinos or a Register of the Air. By N. Henshaw M. D. Lingard's Letter of Advice to a young Gentleman 12o. Turkish History Turkish History Pineda cut of Cromerus Jornandes Monsieur de Fumee Pharibus Ma●●●● Livy Lib. 5. cap. 7. Pdolybius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir Walter Rawleigh Malainsana Brerewood's enquiries By Aenaeas Sylvius Goritia Palma Nova Lib 7. The Mae● Rotterdam Del●t Hague Leyden Haerlem Amsterdam Vtrecht The Bosse Breda Gertruydenberg Dort Ter-Vere Middleburg Flushing Antwerp Brussels Brusle Maestreicht Roermonde Andernach Coblentz Baccharach Psalts Caste Mouse-Tower Bing Mentz Franckfort Darmstadt The River Neccar Heidelberg Nurenberg Rutisbone Straubing Lintz Corneuburg Znaim Iglau Czaslaw Cottenberg Prague The Princess Libussa Dresden Freiberg Silver Mines Brimstone Mines Leipsick Magdeburg Stadt Gluckstadt Heil●ge-landt Juliers Aken Rel●cks The manner of making of Brass The Baths of Aken The hot Fountain The Baths of ●orset A Mine of La●is Calaminaris Limburg Spà Geronster Saviniere Tonnelet Pohunt The making of Brimstone Liege A noble Quarry of Stone Tongres Lovain Ghent Bruges Ostend Newport Dunkirk Graveling Padoa Virgil. Aeneid 1. St. Anthony's Church at Padoa Vicenza Verona Athesis Plutarel V. rg 9. Aen● Ovid. Mount Baldus The Amphitheater at Verona Prud. The Arena The Portul● Sone●a The Podium Suggustum Imperatoris Martial Retiarius Famous Statues of old still preserved in Rome Ju●enal Secutor Prud. Threces Myrmillones Dimachari Laquearij Meridiani Statius ●●r●do●s Stat. Mantua Mincius Eridanus Ovid. Guastala Brescello Parma Fornova Taro. Borgo di Valle The Apennine Mountains

side there is fastned a Collar of Brass at present but was formerly of Lead and given by Charles the Fifth into this most Strangers that come put their Necks at which time they ask them Whether they will be sprinkled with water or drink wine and if they choose the latter they give an entertainment of Wine to the Company The Queen of Sweden passing by this place gave a great Silver Cup out of which they now drink at this Ceremony We lodged this night at Wesel a Town situated between a high Hill and the River belonging to the Archbishop of Triers Here in the Market-place they shew'd us the print of St. Hubert's Horses foot in a Free-stone On the 19 th we came to Baccharach or ad Bacchiaras belonging to the Elector Palatine a place famous for excellent Wines We passed by an old Castle seated upon a Rock in the middle of the Rhine being of an irregular figure called P●alts where formerly the Prince Palatines of the Rhine were born the Princesses being sent hither to be brought to Bed We came this night to Dreickshausen the next day we went by a dangerous Passage there being many Rocks under water which cause the River to run very rapid and unequally A little above this we came to a round Tower on a Rock in the Rhine called the Mouse-tower built by Hatto Archbishop of Mentz in the year 900. who as the Story goes in a time of great Scarcity pretending to relieve the poor who wanted bread invited them together into a Barn where he burnt them all saying They were like the Rats and Mice which would devour the Corn. After which he was so persecuted with Rats and Mice that to avoid them he caused this Tower to be built in the middle of the Rhine which did not avail him for they followed him thither also and at last devoured him A little above this lies Bing upon the Western shoar a considerable Town belonging to the Elector of Mentz here our Boat stayed to pay Custom as it had done also at Bonna Liutz Hammerstein Andernach Coblentz Lodesheim Bopport St. Gower Cub and Baccarach For the trade of the Rhine being great Princes and Lords who have Towns upon it make use of that advantage which though it abates the gains of the Merchant brings considerable profit to themselves Bing or Bingium was an old Roman Fortress upon the Rhine where the River Navus or Naw enters into it over which latter there is a handsome Stone-bridge In this Town were many of the Duke of Lorrain's Army sick and wounded who three weeks before had maintained a fight against the Forces of the Elector Palatine near this place From Bing we continued our Journey to Mentz at Rudesheim in Rhinegaw a place noted for good Wine they shewed us a Boy whose hair was thick and woolly like to the African Moors but of a fine white colour which being somewhat an odd fight I took away some of his hair with me Mentz Moguntia Moguntiacum and by the French Mayence is seated over against the Confluence of the River Main with the Rhine or rather a little below it in a fertile Country abounding in all Provisions and good Wine it lies at length and is most extended towards the River and that part excels the other towards the Land which is not so populous or well-built It is a strong place and well guarded it hath many Churches and Monasteries and some fair Buildings especially those of publick concern as the Palace of the Elector and others But the narrowness of the Streets and many old Houses take away much from the beauty of the City It is an University begun about the year 1486. or as others will have it 1461. This place also challenges the Invention of Printing or at least the first promotion or perfection thereof And the Territory about it is famous for the destruction of the Roman Legions under Varus by the Germans Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden was wonderfully pleased upon the taking of this City 1631. entring into it in State upon the 14 th of December it being his Birth-day which began the 38 th year of his life and kept his Court and Christmas here where at one time there were with him six chief Princes of the Empire twelve Ambassadors of Kings States Electors and Princes besides Dukes and Lords and the Martial men of his own Army At the taking of the Town they found great store of Ordnance and Powder and the City redeemed it self from Pillage by giving the King a Ransom of Eighty thousand Dollars and the Clergy and Jews gave Two and twenty thousand more of which the Jews paid Eighteen thousand Archbishop Wamhold saving himself upon the Rhine and retiring to Colen The King caused also two great Bridges to be made one over the Main founded upon fifteen great flat bottom'd Boats the rest being built upon great Piles of Wood Another over the Rhine supported by sixty one great flat Boats each lying the distance of an Arch from one another and many Families of people living sometimes in the Boats under the Bridge The Bridge over the Main is taken away but that over the Rhine is still continued Upon which I saw the present Elector passing in his Coach a Person of great Gravity of a middle Stature having long grey Hair and was very Princely attended his Name is Joannes Philippus of the Noble Family of Schoenburg Elector and Archbishop of Mentz Bishop of Wurtzburg and Bishop of Worms Arch-Chancellor of the Empire for all Germany the first of the Electoral College in all publick Conventions he sits at the right hand of the Emperor and is a Successor of the famous Boniface an English man Bishop of Mentz who very much promoted the Christian Religion in these parts But though his Dignity and Place excel the two other Ecclesiastical Electors of Colen and Triers yet his Territories come short and they lie not together but scatteringly with those of the Palatinate Spier Franckfort and divers places in Franconia But of late he hath much encreased his Power by seizing the great City of Erfurdt in Turingia which he hath since much beautified and strengthned by a Citradel built upon St. Peters-hill In the year One Thousand one hundred and fourteen the Emperor Henry the Fourth sent an Ambassador to the King of England Henry the First requesting that Maude the Kings daughter whom he had formerly espoused by Proxy might now being Marriage-able be sent to him to which request the King most willingly condescended and the Princess was presently conducted by his greatest Peers into Germany and at Mentz was married to Henry the Fourth and there Crowned his Empress From Mentz I passed by water up the River Main to Franckfort a free City of the Empire called Trajectum Franconum a Passage or Ford of the Franks as serving them for a Retreat when they entred or returned from Gaul at present Franckford upon the

of Augsberg are brought into it When I first embarked at Regensburg I thought I might have taken leave of the Danube not far below Vienna but an opportunity made me see this great Stream beyond Belgrade as I have declared in another Account of my Travels The first day we passed by Thonawsteyn where there is a Castle seated upon a high Rock and came to Pfeter or Vetera Castra of old now but an ordinary place The Boats upon the Danube are generally painted black and white are flat bottom'd and broad at the Head and Stern there is a Chamber built in the middle and the Rudder is very large to be able to command the Boat where the River is rapid and of a Swift Course The next day we came to Straubing a handsome walled Town belonging to the Duke of Bavaria the Streets are streight and there is a Tower in the Market-place painted all over with green and gold colour There is also a Bridge of wood over the Danube We passed by Swartz in the Afternoon where the Church is seated upon a Hill and is frequented by Pilgrims and lodged at Deckendorff where there is another Bridge Near this Town comes into the Danube that considerable River Iser or Isara having passed by divers considerable Towns as Landshut Frising and Müchen the Seat of Ferdinandus Maria Elector of Bavaria Great Steward of the Empire and at present the first of the Secular Electors and he is to take place immediately after the King of Bohemia it being to concluded on at the Treaty of Munster where Maximilian Duke of Bavaria was allowed to hold the Electorship which was confirmed upon him by the Emperor Ferdinand the Second when he excluded Frederick the Fifth Count Palatine and in lieu hereof there was an eight Electorship erected for the Palatinate Family who also if the Bavarian branch doth fail are to re-enter into their ancient Electorship and the other newly erected is to be abolished Thursday November the fifteenth we came by Wilshoven to Passaw Patavia or Boiodurum a long and noble City in the lower Bavaria or Bayern made up of three Towns Iltzstadt Passaw and Innstadt at the concurrence of the River Inn the Danube and the jltz As Towns are commonly of great Antiquity which are built at the Confluence of great Rivers for the Strength of the Situation and convenience of Commerce so is this accounted ancient as being a Roman Colony and the place of the Castra Batava in old time The Church of St. Stephen is stately besides other fair Churches The Bishop who is Lord of the City hath a strong Palace upon a Hill his Revenues are large and besides what he possesses hereabouts he hath the tenth part of the notable great Lead-Mine at Bleyberg in Carinthia This place had lately suffered much by fire but a good part was rebuilt and very fairly after the Italian manner So that this may well be reckoned as one of the ten considerable Cities which are upon the Danube accounting from Vlme unto Belgrade as Vlme Ingolstadt Ratisbone Passaw Lintz Vienna Presburg Strigonium Buda Belgrade all which from Ratisbone I had the opportunity to see before the end of my Journey Near to a Wall over against the great Church at Passaw which was then repairing I saw a vast Head cut in stone the Mouth whereof was two spans wide and the rest proportionable The River Iltz which runs in here from the North is considerable for the Pearls which are found in it and the noble River Inne or Oenus from the South is the greatest River which hath yet entred the Danube having passed by Insbrug and taken in the River Saltz upon which stands Saltzburg and arising in the Alpes in such a high Country as Tirolis it runs in here with a great force and adds much unto the swiftness of the Danube Upon the Sixteenth we came to Lintz the chief City in the higher Austria not very great but as neat and handsome a City as most in Germany There is in it a very great Market-place with never a bad House in it the whole Town built of a very white Free-stone and the Castle upon the Hill is of Mordern Building and very large There is also a Bridge over the Danube The Imperial Forces rendezvoused here when Solyman came to Vienna This was also besieged by the Peasants of Austria in the time of Ferdinand the Second they having got a Body together of Forty thousand men and many pieces of Ordnance but were stoutly repulsed after many Assaults and at last overcome by Papenheim Not far below Lintz the River Draun enters the Danube this comes from the Gemundner Sea or Lacus Felicis passing by Lampack Weltz and other Towns and hath a noted Cataract or Fall of Waters The Whirle-poole in the Danube I. Oliv●r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The next day we passed by Ens Anisia upon the River Anisius or Onasus which taking its original in the Borders of Saltzburgland runs into the Danube and divides the higher from the lower Austria having received into it self the River Saltza upon which stands Cell or Maria Cell a place of the greatest Pilgrimage in Austria Near this Town are many Roman Coyns and Antiquities found and Lauriacum stood of old a Roman Garrison and afterwards a Biship's See we came to a Village on the North shoar of the Danube called Greim where the Graff von Leichtensteyn hath a House A little below this are two dangerous passages in the River the one called the Strudel where the River running amongst vast Rocks some under water and some above the waves are broken with great force and the Current is rapid foaming and troublesome and some skill is required to pass between the Ledges of Rocks which are under water and when the water is low the passage is very difficult The other is the Wurbel or a kind of Whirlpool where the water turns about with great force being hindred in its direct Course by a great Rock Upon the top of a high craggy Rock stands a large Cross and at the foot a little Church dedicated to St. Nicholas who is Patron of this dangerous place and is believed to take peculiar care of such as pass this way and therefore a little Boat comes to you as soon as you are out of danger and recieves what Acknowledgment you please or what perhaps you may have promised to give when you were in some fear This night we lodged at Ips Ipsium or Ibissa a Town on the South-side of the Danube over against it lies Besenbeug or Vsbium Pt●lom●ei Two German miles below Ips stands Pechlarn conceived to be Arlape in former times and here the River Erlaph enters the Danube A mile and a half below this lies Melcke Nomale or Mea dialecta in former days the Seat of the Marquesses of Austria until St. Leopold removed to Kalenberg and his Successours to Vienna The Town lies at length upon the South-side of the River but the noble Cloister

never be made strong or able to make any significant Resistance and to speak the truth it hath really been forced so many times by every next bold Intruder that few Cities of this beauty and perfection have been oftner ravished It is thought to have been built by the Galli Senones in the time of Tarquinius Priscus but most Authors reckon it to be more Ancient and will have it to be one of the twelve Cities built beyond the Apennines by the old Tuscans and that the Gauls possessed it not till the Tuscans were driven out These in process of time yielded it to the Romans who enjoyed it long even till the coming of Attila the Hun who notably sacked and plundered it The next to these that were Lords and Masters of Vicenza were the Ostrogoths and after them the Lombards Till the time that Desiderius the last of the Lombardian Kings having left his son Aldigier in this City was taken prisoner by Charles the great and when it had served Charlemaigne and his Successors with various fortune in time it recovered its Liberty and set up for a free City till the Emperor Frederick coming upon it of a sudden took and burnt it Next to him Ezzellin ruled over it then the Padoans then Mastino della Scala first Signore di Verona and his Family after him till Giovanni Galeazzo Visconte the first Duke of Milan seized upon it whose Dutchess Catharina after the death of her husband set them again at Liberty and absolved them from their Oath of Allegiance when upon Various Consultations in what manner they should govern themselves for the future and whether or no they should unite with the Caprasavio's Party prevailed who persuaded them to give themselves Voluntarily to the Venetian by means of which free consent of their's at last they enjoy at present greater immunities and privileges than most of their neighbouring Cities From Vicenza we went to Verona a noble ancient spacious City of about six Miles round well built and now handsomly fortified by the Venetians with great Bastions It hath three Castles or Forts two upon the hill and one by the River side many ancient and many handsom Churches stately Convents and Buildings both publick and private and is very well watered with the pleasant River Aiche or Etshe Athesis Adige or Adice The River Athesis is a noble River which arising above in the high Rhoetian Alpes and passing all along through the Vallis Venusta comes rouling down by Trent and then winds and turns within the City of Verona and afterwards passing through the Fens near the l'o enters the Adriatick Sea and many Authors report That the great Incursion of the Cimbrians was made by the sides of this River which is also confirmed by Hermannus Cruserius Gulielmus Xylander by the Bishop of Auxerres and divers other good Translators of Plutarch as also that Catulus laid encamped upon this River to hinder their further Invasion nay some proceed to mention a triumphal arch erected at Verona for Caius Marius his Victory in these quarters For Catulus the Consul Collegue with Caius Mariu● who marched against the Cimbri despairing of being able to defend the tops of the Alp s where being compelled to divide his Forces into several Parties he might very much weaken himself returned presently into Italy and placed his Army by the River Athesis say they where closing up the passages o● both sides of the River with strong Fortifications he made a bridge whereby he might assist those on either side if the Enemies having forced the narrow Passages should invade and storm them But the Cimbrians ceme on with such Boldness and Contempt of their Enemies that meerly to show their Strength and Courage rather than out of Necessity they went naked in the Showres of Snow and through the ice and deep Snow climbed up to the top of the Mountains and from thence placing their broad Shields under their bodies they let themselves slide from the highest precipices down those vast Descents and when they had pitched their Camp at a little distance from the River and surveyed the Passage they begun to pour in upon the Romans and Giant-like tearing up the neighbouring Hills and pulling up Trees by the Roots and great Trees too Quales Aeriae liquentia flumina circum Sive Padi ripis Athesin seu prop er amoenum Consurgunt geminae Quercus intonsaque Caelo Attolunt capita et sublimi ver●ice nutant Such overtopping uncut Oakes as grow By pleasant Athesis or th' liquid Streams of Po And higher than the clouds their lofty heads do throw Which seem to strike at Heaven and not at us below And throwing in heaps of earth and great Corners of Rocks whereby to turn the course of the River and heaving in huge massy floats which beat against the side of the Bridge and broke down the supporters the Roman Souldiers left their Camp and fled yet notwithstanding all this there may some doubt be made whether they entred Italy by the sides of this River and Plutarch himself doth not call the River near which the Cimbrians descended the River Athesis but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the River Atise or Tosa a River which is at a great distance from any part of the Athesis and arising in the Alpes runs evidently into the Lago maggiore or Lacus Verbanus and is next to the River Lesia or Lesitis which passes by Vercelli and falls afterwards into the Po and when Baeorix King of the Cimbrians challenged the Roman Generals to fight and bid them appoint their time and place Caius Marius returned this answer that although it were not the Custom of the Romans to let their Enemies know where and when they intended to give battel yet he would at this time accept of his challenge and appointed to meet him in three days after in the plains near Vercelli where there was space enough for both Parties to show their valour and to determine this Controversy in a fair and open field and where he gave a total overthrow to one of the greatest Armies perhaps that ever invaded Italy and hereby it seems to me that this great drove of Cimbrians or a good part of them passed over Mount Sampion or Mons Sempronius from which mountain the River Atiso takes its rise and the Description of the vast Precipices and sliding down in their Shields as it were a la ramasse is by no means agreeable nor can it any ways be allowed for a tolerable Delineation of the passage into Italy by Trent where the road doth no where lye over any such vast Mountain but the terrible description by Mr Raymund and Mr Lassels of the bad way and ill passage between Briga and Domo over Mount Sampion is very suitable to the ancient account As the pleasant River Athesis is very serviceable to Verona so the four handsom Bridges over it in this Town are both useful and ornamental and the Walls about it in a