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Article SHORT DESCRIPTION OF AUSTRIA, ← Page 3 of 4 →
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Short Description Of Austria,
of birth tikes place ; and , failing males , the females succeed according to the lineal right ; and , if no heir be found , they may dispose of their lands as they please . " Upper Austria , properly so called , has , throughout , the appearance of a happy country ; hare are no signs of the striking contrast betwixt poverty and riches which oifends so much in Hungary . All the inhabitantsthose of the captital only exceptedenjoy that happy
, , mediocrity which is the consequence of a gentle and wise administration . The farmer has property ; and the rights of the nobility , who enjoy a kind of lower judicial power , are well defined The south and south-west parts of the country are bounded by a ridge of hills , the inhabitants of which enjoy a share of prosperity unknown to those of the interior parts of France . There are many
villages and market-towns , the inhabitants of which having bought themselves off from vassalage , are now their own governors , and belong some of them to the estates of the country . The cloisters , the prelates of which belong to the estates of the country , are the richest in Germany , after the immediate prelacies and- abbacies of the empire . One of the greatest convents of Benedictines is worth upwards
of 4000 millions of French livres , half of which goes to the exchequer of the country . Lower Austria yearly exports more than two millions worth of guilders of wine to Moravia , Bohemia , Upper Austria , Bavaria , Saltzburg , ancl part of Stiria and Carinthia . This wine is sour , but has a great deal of strength , and may be carried all over the world without ¦
danger ; when it is ten or twenty years old , it is very good . This country is very well peopled . ' Mr . Schlofer , in his political journal , which contains an account of the population of Austria , estimates that of this country at 2 , 100 , 000 men . The revenue of this Country is about 14 , 000 , 000 of florins ; of which the city of Vienna contributes about five , as one man in the capital earns as much as three in the country .
The southern parts of Austria are covered with hills , which rise gradually from the banks of the Danube to the borders of Stiria , and are covered with woods . They lose themselves in . the mass of mountains which rim to the south of Germany , and stretch through all Stiria , Carniola , Carinthia , and Tyrol , to . the Swiss Alps ; and are probably , after Savoy and Switzerland , the hig hest part of the earth .
The inhabitants of this extensive ridge of mountains are all very much alike ; they are strong , large , and ,, the goitres excepted , a very handsome people . The characteristic of the inhabitants of all this country is striking b ' go try , 1 " _ ted with striking sensuality . You need only see what is going forward hereto be convinced that the religion taught by
, the monks , is as ruinous for the morals as it is repugnant to Christianity . The cicisbeos accompany the married women from their bed to church , and lead' them to the very confessional . The bigotry of the public in the interior parts of Austria , which , from the
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Short Description Of Austria,
of birth tikes place ; and , failing males , the females succeed according to the lineal right ; and , if no heir be found , they may dispose of their lands as they please . " Upper Austria , properly so called , has , throughout , the appearance of a happy country ; hare are no signs of the striking contrast betwixt poverty and riches which oifends so much in Hungary . All the inhabitantsthose of the captital only exceptedenjoy that happy
, , mediocrity which is the consequence of a gentle and wise administration . The farmer has property ; and the rights of the nobility , who enjoy a kind of lower judicial power , are well defined The south and south-west parts of the country are bounded by a ridge of hills , the inhabitants of which enjoy a share of prosperity unknown to those of the interior parts of France . There are many
villages and market-towns , the inhabitants of which having bought themselves off from vassalage , are now their own governors , and belong some of them to the estates of the country . The cloisters , the prelates of which belong to the estates of the country , are the richest in Germany , after the immediate prelacies and- abbacies of the empire . One of the greatest convents of Benedictines is worth upwards
of 4000 millions of French livres , half of which goes to the exchequer of the country . Lower Austria yearly exports more than two millions worth of guilders of wine to Moravia , Bohemia , Upper Austria , Bavaria , Saltzburg , ancl part of Stiria and Carinthia . This wine is sour , but has a great deal of strength , and may be carried all over the world without ¦
danger ; when it is ten or twenty years old , it is very good . This country is very well peopled . ' Mr . Schlofer , in his political journal , which contains an account of the population of Austria , estimates that of this country at 2 , 100 , 000 men . The revenue of this Country is about 14 , 000 , 000 of florins ; of which the city of Vienna contributes about five , as one man in the capital earns as much as three in the country .
The southern parts of Austria are covered with hills , which rise gradually from the banks of the Danube to the borders of Stiria , and are covered with woods . They lose themselves in . the mass of mountains which rim to the south of Germany , and stretch through all Stiria , Carniola , Carinthia , and Tyrol , to . the Swiss Alps ; and are probably , after Savoy and Switzerland , the hig hest part of the earth .
The inhabitants of this extensive ridge of mountains are all very much alike ; they are strong , large , and ,, the goitres excepted , a very handsome people . The characteristic of the inhabitants of all this country is striking b ' go try , 1 " _ ted with striking sensuality . You need only see what is going forward hereto be convinced that the religion taught by
, the monks , is as ruinous for the morals as it is repugnant to Christianity . The cicisbeos accompany the married women from their bed to church , and lead' them to the very confessional . The bigotry of the public in the interior parts of Austria , which , from the