Note 59 — Chapter VI

A singular ignorance of the true situation of these famous places is displayed by most of the German writers. Berckenmayer, in his Curiösen Antiquarius, carries the Wirbel below the town of Krems, and he is followed in his error by Strahlenberg, in his Beschreibung des Russichen Reiches, and Hübner, in his Vollständigen Geographie, who speak of the Wirbel as a waterfall near Krems. From Hübner this mistake has been copied into several geographical works, and amongst others into the old Zeitung’s Lexicon; and many of the modern German, and even some English travellers speak of the Strudel and Wirbel as one and the same thing, a confusion which nothing but utter carelessness could have created; the first being distinctly a fall, and the second an eddy, each remarkable in itself, and at some little distance from the other.