to him the presents from his Imperial Majesty, viz. 300 broad doubloons, a silver-gilt beaker, and a silvergilt ewer and basin.
When this business was ended, permission was given us to go and see the Castle of Gran, in which the archbishop formerly lived. On entering the church, in which the Turks perform their devotions, we saw a handsome chapel, cased inside with marble, in which was a beautiful representation of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, made of variegated marble. Thence we ascended by a lofty staircase into a handsome private chapel, in which were pictures of saints. Next to this chapel was a tolerably spacious palace, and in it pictures of the former kings of Hungary. Immediately behind the palace is a beautiful gallery, adorned all round with marble pillars, from which there is an extensive view of the fields and plains, as well as of the city, which is close to the Danube. Under this gallery is an extraordinary well, hewn out of the solid rock, and so deep that, when a stone is thrown into it, the splash cannot be heard for a considerable time. The water is forced up from the Danube at a vast expense. The well is a very beautiful one, and must have cost the Hungarian archbishop, who formerly had his usual abode here, many thousand ducats. After seeing what there was in the fortress, we repaired to our boats and dined. After dinner we started again down the Danube with our escort, i. e. with the ten boats, to which ours were lashed. We sailed past the Castle Wyssehrad,[1] which is situated on a lofty eminence, and towards evening arrived at Waitzen, where also a bishop’s see formerly
- ↑ High castle.
