an ancient, large, rich, handsome, and strong city of Germany, in Bavaria, free and imperial, with a bishop's see, whose bishop is a prince of the empire. It is full of gentry; and there are very handsome structures, particularly three monasteries and three abbeys. The town-house is very magnificent, and in its hall the general diets of the empire meet; only in 1740, there being a war in Germany, the meeting of the diet was transferred to Frankfort on the Main, till after the death of the emperor Charles VII. It is seated on the Danube, and is pretty well fortified, over which river there is a stone bridge of 15 arches, so that in the time of war it is a passage of very great consequence. The inhabitants are Protestants, and all their magistrates must be of that persuasion; however, the Roman Catholics have the liberty of saying mass there once a week. The abbots and RAVINES and the two abbeys have the rank of prelates of the empire. Provisions are very plentiful here, and they have a good trade in time of peace, the river on which it stands being navigable, and by which it communicates with a great part of Germany. E. Long. 11. N. Lat. 48. 56.