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272 TOKAY.
but has been brought by fome means or other from the Carpathian
mountains. It muft be mentioned in extenuation of fuch an erro¬
neous account, that Mr. Born’s journey to Tokay happened foon
after he met with the dreadful accident at Felfo-Banya; and this fo
ruined ‘his health as to prevent him from examining thefe hills him¬
felf: and this he confefles in his nineteenth letter to his friend Ferber,
dated at Schemnitz—* It is impoflible (fays he) for me to'tell you
how much I have fuffered in my journey of ten days from Nagy¬
Banya to this place: I was chiefly carried in and out the carriage ;
each ftone on which I touched ; each fhaking of the carriage, doubled
the pains which I feel throughout my whole body. The dry gough,
which does not leave me, fill prevents my fleep. In this painful
ftate of body it was impoffible for me to examine the hills I paffed by.”
Indeed, in his Taft work, his Catalogue Méthodique, he gives a quite
different account of thefe hills, and on the fame fubje@, the Obfidian.
For on'the article “Verre volcanique en grains noirs, &c.” hefays, “ Les
collines de Tokay font formées d'un Tuf Volcanique, qui, dans quelques
endroits, ef entrecoupé de bandes larges d'une’ ow de dens toifes de lave
compatte renfermant de fes grains witreux, noirs opaques —As Mr,
Born was never here after his return in 1770, he muft have ob¬
tained this intelligence likewife from his friends. No one, I hope,
will think, from my taking now and then the liberty of correéting
the miftakes of this ‚great man, that T do not feel the greateft refpect
for him: he was the very light of Auftria,
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