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INSPRUCK

Volume 11 · 157 words · 1815 Edition

city of Germany, in the circle of Austria, and capital of the county of Tyrol, received its name from the river Inn, which runs by it. It has a noble castle or palace, formerly the residence of the archdukes of the house of Austria, with a cathedral where they are buried. The houses, though built in the German taste, are rather handsome; and the streets, though narrow, are remarkably well paved. For the defence of this city the inhabitants can place but little confidence in their fortifications, which are very trifling. They seem rather to depend on the natural fastnesses of their country; which appear indeed to form a barrier, so perfectly inaccessible to any enemy, that even the great Gustavus Adolphus, after having overrun with his victorious arms the other parts of Germany, could never make any impression upon this. It is seated in a pleasant valley, in E. Long. 11. 30. N. Lat. 47. 16.