Before eleven a clock we again take up our quarters at _Visakna_, that is, _Saltzburg_, so called from the _salt mines_; which I visited this afternoon, in company with the minister of the place, _Joannes Nagy Borosnyai_ of the Helvetian confession. The salt is here dug, and cut into stones (as they call them) of a square figure, and about an hundred pound in weight. Being so prepared in the cavern, which at the bottom extends itself very wide in the manner of a dome, they are drawn up by cables, of which one winds round an adjoining machine drawn by four horses, and the other unwinds at the same time. The pit itself is square, lined within with planks, as far as the earthy soil reaches, and extending afterwards to the depth of about an hundred yards. These stones are afterwards laid up in magazines, to be transported on occasion by the _Maros_ into the _Danube_, and thence vended into Turkey or Germany for the use of the Emperor, who is the sole proprietor of all the natural mines, with which this province abounds. The above mentioned minister here gave me some _gemmae salis_, as pellucid as ordinary crystal. He is a man well learned, and has traveled into many countries, particularly England. At the same place I likewise received a present of some _specimina metallica_, namely gold, cinnabar, antimony, and others; which were sent me by a gentleman, named _Samuel Koloseri_, the Emperor’s general inspector of the Transylvanian mines. May xix. We depart hence for _Tsanad_ and arrive there before twelve a clock; from whence his Excellency designing for _Enyed_ by the way of _Balasfalva_, Mr. Montague, Mr. _Gangain_, and myself take this opportunity of steping out of the way to see _Alba Julia_, or _Wissenburg_. We therefore hire a post calash by five a clock in the afternoon, and it being distant three long Hungarian miles in dirty way, we scarce arrive there by twelve at night, having near the city crossed the _Maurusius_ over a wooden bridge. In our way thither we saw a gang of _Zingans_, or gypses, common in this and the neighbouring provinces, as well as Turkey. May xx.