My Lord and his family now returned from _Baden_ to _Vienna_, where he lodged within the city in the house of _C. Stratman_, at the rate of five hundred florins a month. At _Baden_ I was able to observe nothing, except some small matters relating to country affairs. As their way of making wine in the field, where they mash the grapes in broad open tubs, and tun it into large casks, as they lie in the cart. The manner of enclosing their vineyards with high poles joined at the top, and burnt at bottom to secure them from corrupting by the moisture of the ground. The manner of drawing sometimes with asses, and at other times with oxen, joining the harness to their horns without the use of yokes. I observed likewise their custom of calling a public officer upon the death of any animal; before which they dare not touch the carcass, he only being impowered to carry it away to a certain place, and there flea it, for which he receives three florins. This officer is called the _hound slayer_, because twice a year he is obliged to kill all the dogs both in town and country, that are found without a collar, which is thought an institution against spreading of infectious diseases. October v. This day I waited upon Mr. Stepney, who among other papers from England shewed me that traiterous Epigram, written in praise of _Sorrel_, or the horse, from which his late Majesty received his fatal fall. October xxv. There was brought to his Excellency’s house a male child, seven years of age, born at _Rigetsch_, three miles and a half from _Papa_, of a beautiful countenance, but without legs or thighs; and the left hand deformed, but the right intire. It walks, and raises itself with ease, while its trunk supplies the use of one leg, and the right hand that of the other. The hips terminate in a round figure, not unlike a woman’s breasts, and have in the middle an excrescence exactly resembling a large nipple. The child is healthy and lively, and from the crown of the head to the extremity of the trunk is three palms and a half long.