Tho’ we speed pretty well, yet I am apt to believe, that at one Time or other, such Dangerous Sailing will be fatal to some Passengers. In our Passage, I saw _Tolna_, a handsome Town in _Hungary_; I cannot forbear to mention it, because there we had very good White-wine, and, besides the Inhabitants were very Courteous to us. Moreover, we passed in sight of the Castle of _Walpot_, seated on an Hill, and of other Castles and Towns besides; we saw also, where the River _Drave_, on the one side, and the _Tibiscus_, or _Taise_, on the other, made their Influx into the _Danow_. As for _Belgrade_ itself, it is seated at the confluence of the _Save_ and the _Danow_; the old City is built in the extreme Angel of the Promontory, the Building is old, it is fortified with many Towers, and a double Wall: Two parts of it are wash’d by the _Save_, and the _Danow_, but on that part where it is joined to the Land, it hath a very strong Castle on high Ground, consisting of many loftly Turrets made of square Stone; before you come into the City, there is a vast Number of Buildings, and very large Suburbs, wherein several Nations inhabit, _viz._ _Turks_, _Greeks_, _Jews_, _Hungarians_, _Dalmatians_, and many others. For you must know that ordinarily over all the _Turkish_ Dominions, the Suburbs are larger than the Towns, but take them both together, they give the resemblance of large Cities: ’Twas at this Town, that I first met with some ancient Coins, wherein, as you know, I take a great delight, and my Physician aforesaid, Dr. _Quackquelben_, fitted me to an Hair, as we say, for he was as much addicted to those Studies as myself. I found a great many Pieces, which on one side represented a _Roman_ Soldier, placed between a Bull and a Horse, (for ’tis known, that the Legions of upper _Mæsia_ did anciently encamp hereabouts) with this Inscription, _Taurunum_. This City, in the memory of our Grandfathers, was twice violently assaulted by the _Turks_, first, under _Almurath_; next under _Mahomet_, who took _Constantinople_; but the _Hungarians_, under the Banner of the Cross, made such a vigorous Defence, that the _Barbarians_ were beaten off with a great deal of Loss. But at last, in the Year 1520. _Solomon_, in the beginning of his Reign, came before it with a vast Army, and finding it, either by the neglect of young King _Ludovicus_, or by the Discords of the factious _Hungarian_ Nobles, destitute of a Garrison able to defend it, he took that opportunity to assault it, and so easily became Master thereof. And that Door being once opened, an _Iliad_ of Miseries broke in upon poor _Hungary_, of which she is sadly Sensible to this Day; for this Pass being gained, there followed the Slaughter of King _Lewis Ludovicus_, the taking of _Buda_, the inslaving of _Transilvania_, and a flourishing Kingdom, hereby brought under the Yoke, not without a Terror struck into the Neighbouring Nations, least they also should partake of the