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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 erroneous 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 himfelf: 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 NagyBanya 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 obtained 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, On 20
