In this manner
the whole interior of the city is disposed in squares, so as to
resemble a chess-board, and planned out with a degree of precision and
beauty impossible to describe.
The wall of the city has twelve gates, three on each side of the
square, and over each gate and compartment of the wall there is a
handsome building; so that on each side of the square there are five
such buildings, containing large rooms, in which are disposed the arms
of those who form the garrison of the city, every gate being guarded
by a thousand men. It is not to be understood that such a force is
stationed there in consequence of the apprehension of danger from any
hostile power whatever, but as a guard suitable to the honor and
dignity of the sovereign.
FOUNDING OF THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG
A.D. 1273
WILLIAM COXE
The house of Hapsburg---also called the house of
Austria--owes its origin and firm establishment to the most
celebrated of the Hapsburgs, a German princely family who
derived their name from Hapsburg castle, built about 1020,
on the banks of the Aare in Switzerland. This founder of the
imperial line was Rudolph, son of Albert IV, Count of
Hapsburg and Landgrave of Alsace.
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