Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.

HUNGARY.

HEre are many▪ Waters of excel∣lent Vertue, whereof some turn Wood into Iron, others Iron into Brass; some very Medicinal for sundry Disea∣ses, others again so pestiferous, that they kill the Creature which doth but taste them. The like is reported of an Hiatus in the Ground, unaccessable by any but the fowls of the Air, and those fall sud∣daily dead with the stench which ascends from it.

It is hard to believe what most Geo∣graphers report of her Fertility: That she yields Corn thrice in one year, al∣most without any Tillage or care of the Husband-man. Fruit of all kinds in great abundance, and Grapes which make an excellent, wholsome, and rich Wine; It breeds Cattel in such plenty, that this one Country, besides store of her own Inhabitants, sends Sheep and

Oxen into Forrain Nations which lye about her, and might say they suffice to feed all Europe with Flesh. Venison is not here any dainties, Does, Hares, Harts, Goats, Boars, &c. are every Mans Meat, and the Game common, as well to the Boors as Gentry. And so for Phesant, Partridge, Black-birds, Pige∣ons, most Fowl, wild and tame.

The Earth is inricht with variety of Mines, which yields her plenty of Iron, Steel, Copper, Silver and Gold, Lead she hath not, and scarce at all any Tin.