The _20th_ we rode thorough _Wangen_, another imperial city, situated in _Algaw_, where they drove a very good trade with fine ticking and linnen cloth; about noon we arrived at _Lindaw_, an imperial city situated in the _Boden_ sea, where there is a very great depository or staple of all sorts of commodities or merchandizes: some have call’d this the _German Venice_, because it is in like manner situated in water, and hath also a great trade. After dinner we crossed the lake towards _Fuzach_, a village not far from _Bregentz_, towards the _Rhine_. The _21st_ about breakfast-time we came to _Veldkirch_, a very pleasant town, situated upon the _Yll_, belonging now to the house of _Austria_, but formerly to the counts of _Montfort_. By the way I saw several fine plants, _viz._ _Saxifraga Aurea_, _Caryophyllata Alpina_, a fine sort of _Bellis-major_, _Christa galli_ with white flowers, and _Auricula Ursi_ with brown flowers, _&c._ At night we came to _Mayenfeld_, belonging to the _Grawpunters_, upon the _Rhine_, which runs by the town, and there runs into it a river call’d _Camingen_, which slides down between high rocks, where the famous warm bath (from an adjacent abby, call’d _Pfeffers_) riseth, which may be numbered amongst the wonderful waters, in regard of it’s admirable operation in strengthening lame and contracted members, and hath this property beyond other baths, that it loseth itself from _October_ till _May_, and then it cometh on again powerfully. The _22d_ we came at night to _Chur_, a very ancient city, where also is a deposition of Goods that are brought thither from _Germany_ by pack-horses over the mountains. A seat of that Bishop lyeth half an hour’s going from the _Rhine_, wherefore this bishopric is accounted the chief of all the bishoprics of the _Rhine_, or the _Pfaffen gaste_, call’d by others, because it is situated near the first beginning of the _Rhine_, according to the ancient proverb: _Costentz_ the biggest, _Basil_ the pleasantest, _Strasburg_ the noblest, _Spires_ the devoutest, _Worms_ the poorest, _Mentz_ the worthiest, _Trier_ the ancientest, and _Collen_ the richest. The _23d_ we rode to _Tusis_, an ancient village belonging to the _Grawpunters_, the name whereof shews it’s original, for the _Rhetians_ are descended from the _Tuscans_, who under the conduct of one _Rhætus_ of old took possession of those countries; not far off upon a high mountain is still situated a ruin’d castle, call’d _Realt_, or which is righter, _Rhœtia alta_, deriv’d also from the _Rhetians_. The _24th_ at noon we came by the _Splewer-hill_ into a village call’d _Splugi_, not far from the beginning, head, or sourse of the _Rhine_: Thence we passed over the hill, and came at night to a little village call’d _Gampolschin_, situated in a valley of the same name, where we rested.