We proceed one Hungarian mile and a half thro the same plain to _Proszlo_, which is situated on a large and diffused lake, supplied by the _Tibiscus_, into which it empties itself. In our way hither, we left at a near distance on our right hand the city _Agria_, and the mountains denominated from thence. June ix. We move one Hungarian mile and a half forward in the same plain, and at the same distance from the mountains of _Agria_, to _Alány_. Before diner his Excellency with a retinue went an English mile from hence, in order to visit a new country house and garden belonging to the worthy General _Glychensberg_; who by donation from the Emperor possesses great part of this village, as likewise of that where we lodged last night. I had here an occasion to observe the Hungarian houses under ground, having unawares like to have dropt into a chimney. We took notice likewise of a _plica Polonica_ in the hair of his Excellency’s landlord; who told us, that it being once cut off by his wife, he became perfectly blind for three months, and did not recover his sight, till the _plica_ was grown out and formed again. The same thing is common to most horses in this country. June x. From _Alány_ we go on this day two Hungarian miles to _Arokszalles_, thro the same plain, the soil of which is as black as coal, and in most places overrun with weeds and marshes for want of tillage. In the midway we cross the small river _Both_, by which is a posthouse of the same name. _Arokszalles_ is a popish village, the first of that sort we had seen in Hungary. It belongs to the Prince of _Newburg_, Grand Master of the _Teutonic_ order, who has bought lately of the Emperor a large compass of ground on both sides the _Tibiscus_ for a million of florins. From our quarters we have in view to the right of our road, at the foot of a pleasant tract of mountains, the city _Gyongyossi_, lately taken from the Protestants (as they told us at _Debrecyn_) by the injuries of the Jesuits and other Romanists. June xi. We continue our journey one Hungarian mile to _Hatwan_, thro the same plain, along the foss of an antient _Roman_ camp. The hills of _Gyongyóssi_ are still at a near distance on our right hand, in which four Hungarian miles from _Arokszalles_ is the famous gold mine of _Kremnytz_, with others of silver, iron, and other minerals, in the same neighbourhood. _Hatwan_ was lately a walled city, and is now inhabited by Romanists, being the property of the Prince of _Solmes_, grand master to the King of the _Romans_. The Emperor constantly employs five hundred labourers in the mines of _Kremnytz_, tho of late years they are said to fail. At _Hatwan_, as in all Hungary, I observed the method of burying their corn in holes under ground, as _Hirtius_ remarks of the Africans[133]. June xii.