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NOTES UPON RUSSIA.
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My Route on my Second Embassy.

After the death of the Emperor Maximilian, I was sent as ambassador of the Styrians to Charles, King of Spain, and Arch-duke of Austria, and at that time Emperor Elect; to whom afterwards the Prince of Muscovy also sent his ambassadors to confirm certain treaties which had already been entered into with the Emperor Maximilian. The emperor in his turn wishing to gratify the Prince of Muscovy, gave his brother, the Arch-duke Ferdinand, the task of advising Louis, King of Hungary, so to manage with his uncle Sigismund, King of Poland, that he should consent to equal terms of peace or of truce with the Prince of Muscovy. In consequence of which, the Count Leonhard Nugaroli, in the name of the Emperor Charles, and I, in the name of his imperial brother Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Arch-duke of Austria, etc., started from Vienna for Hungary, and came to Buda in haste with our message to King Louis; and after explaining our commission, and transacting our business according to our instructions, returned to Vienna, and immediately afterwards travelled in company with the Russian ambassadors who had then returned from Spain, and passed through the towns of

Mistlbach, six miles.

Wistermitz, four miles.

Wischa, five miles.

Olmutz, four miles.

Sternberg, two miles.

Parn, where there are iron mines, two miles. At two miles from which we crossed a bridge thrown over the river Morau, and there quitting Moravia, entered the principality of Silesia.

Jagerndorf, three miles; then by

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