We stay this day at _Steken_, where I had leisure to observe in general concerning _Moravia_, that the country is fertile and well tilled, except where it is overrun with pine or fir woods. The people are all slaves to the lords of the several mansions; but this extends only to their labour, not the property of their gain. The language of the place is _Behemish_, a dialect of the _Sclavonian_; but at inns and other public houses they ordinarily speak _Tuysech_. The government it divided into five districts, of which there are as many captains, but the command of the whole province is committed by the Emperor to Count _Thorn_. The river _Morawa_ is likewise called _Mark_ by the Germans; which latter name seems to relate to the antient inhabitants, the _Marcomanni_ (who with the _Quadi_ were here settled) as the former name does to the _Moravians_. Through the whole extent of the country we frequent meet with large lakes, at the distance perhaps of an English mile. November xviii. This day we proceed one mile and a half to _Tuytschenbrodt_, an old fortification on the river _Sazawa_, and from thence two miles to _Habern_, in a wood on the right hand. _Tuytschenbrodt_ was the place, where General _Zeiska_ beat the Emperor _Sigismund_, and by that defeat drove him out of Bohemia. November xix. One mile brings us this day to _Janikaw_, and two more from thence to _Czaslaw_; the place where _Ferdinand_ the second narrowly escaped being assassinated by an Italian, hid for that purpose in an oven. Half a mile farther carries us to a small hamlet, called _Wasser Cratz_. Of these towns _Janikaw_ is the place, where the battle was fought betwixt the Swedes and Imperialists in 1645; and _Czaslaw_, where General _Zeiska_ lies buried. November xx. From _Wasser Cratz_ we proceed one quarter of a German mile, and then having the city of _Kuttenberg_ on our left hand, a little farther in the road we pass by two Imperial mines, where they are now at work, and dig up a mixt oar, consisting of copper, lead, and silver, a specimen of which they then shewed us. At one mile and a half from our last lodging we come to _Kottin_, and there breakfast. Then proceeding another mile and a half, we arrive at _Blanyan_. From _Kottin_ flows the river _Elb_, which takes its name about five miles below that place, and is there scarce navigable. As we travel, we keep it in sight on the right hand, and the woods still on the left. November XXI. Two miles and a half from _Branyan_ carry us to _Oval_, thro an open arable country, with a continued tract of woods on our left hand. In the midway we bait at the poor town of _Bohaimsbrodt_. But the day following for two miles and a half we pass thro a pleasant grove of birch and pine, and afterwards thro open ploughed feilds to _Prague_. November xxiii.