where we saw the story of the thirty two sons of Count _Babo_ painted at large[137]. The house is moted round, as is usual all over this country. In the inside is a noble hall, well painted in the roof, and at the entrance of the gate is fixt an antient Latin inscription, which I have here transcribed. SILVANAB. ET QVADRIBIS[138] AVG. SACRVM C. ANTONINVS VALENTINVS VET. LEG. XIIII. G. MVRVM A FV NDAMENTIS CVM SVO INT ROITO ET PORTICVM CVM ACCVBITO VETVSTATE CONLA BSVM IMPENDIO SVO RESTITV IT GENTIANO ET BASSO COS. August xxix. His Excellency with his whole family retired this day from _Vienna_ to _Baden_, a small town, yet enclosed with an old wall, and celebrated for its baths, which are of pure sulphur. They rise in several places about the town, without any mixture of steel or other mineral, and are there collected into several square cisterns railed about with wood; where people of different quality bathe in distinct bagnios, and in some cases with good success. The town is seated four hours from _Vienna_, at the foot of the hills, which I take to be the _Pannonian Alps_. In this place Mr. Paget and I used the constant exercise of walking morning and evening, where I experienced a happy restoration of my health, once much debilitated in Turkey. _Gloria in excelsis Deo!_ September xxv. His Excellency now sent Mr. Paget and myself to see the castle of _Luxemburg_, situated in the way betwixt _Baden_ and _Vienna_. It is a mean building, in the form of a small quadrangle, and moted round. I observed several curious pictures in it, one particularly fine of the _seven liberal sciences_, in the dining room of the Emperor; another of the present _King of France_, when about four years of age; a third of _Charles the fifth_; a fourth of _Matthias Corvinus_ and his father _Huniades_. The dining room is observable for an accident of thunder, which, while the Emperor and his family were at diner, entered the room at one quarter, passed in a semicircle about the table, and made its way thro the opposite wall with great explosion; while the Emperor remained in his seat with a remarkable calmness and serenity of mind. Adjoining to this building is a delightful park enclosed with pales; and nearer to the house a thick grove of elm and oak, in which is a long walk, and avenues so cut, as to resemble all the streets of _Vienna_. September xxix.