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" Wiliiam on the 3 id of OBober laft. Next 

 *' morning about tenjjl walked abroad, when 

 " the Barrack-Mafter dnd feveral others came 

 " and acquainted me, that they had feen a 

 " very extraordinary agitation in the waters 

 ^ oiLo€h-7ieJ'5. I ref ufed giving credit to their 

 *' ftory, and a little afterwards returned to 

 *' the For/. 



" About eleven, my Clerk and the Brewer 



" at that place camfe and acquainted me, that 



*' a more extraordinary agitation than the 



" former had happened, and they apprehend, 



" ed fome danger to our brewery, which is 



*' fituated where the river Oich difcharges it- 



"felf into the lake. I walked then Jo that 



" place J but before n^ arrival, the water had 



^' returned to its ufual channel. I fa-w very 



" clearly the marks on the banks, to which 



" it had flowed. The banks were quite wet, 



« and a ftrip of leaves of trees and twigs, 



*' &c. left on them. I inquired then into 



*' this affair, and the account the fpeda- 



*' tors gave, were ; That they obferved 



*' the river Oich, which runs from V((eft 



" into the head of the lake, fwell very 



» much, and flow up the river from the 



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