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doubt or dispute the truth of my relation ? for 

 no man certainly was more averse than my self, 

 to affix a credit upon a single report ; but when 

 opposed by such eminent evidence, it forced my 

 obstinacy to yield a compliance : more especial- 

 ly when approaching those frothy streams ; no 

 other argument then need to convince me but 

 eye-sight. Truly I stood amaz'd to see such 

 companies of salmon in these northern parts ; 

 which demonstration made such impressions in 

 my hesitating breast, that now I'm convinc'd ; I 

 am ready to publish my conviction to others, 

 upon manifest experience. For what can I do 

 less than certify a truth so often opposed, and 

 doubted by myself. In this Pontus Cambrosia 

 (in the famous Ness) you shall observe three tides 

 meet every twelve hours : and when they meet, 

 by reason of their interchangeable streams min- 

 gling together, make such convulsions and vio- 

 lent eruptions, as dam up the shores, and make 

 the passage exceeding hazardous ; especially for 

 small boats that cross the Ness, if there do but 

 the least impetuity of winds hover in the air. 



Theopk. This is very remarkable, for the por- 

 posses to pursue the salmon ashore. 



Am. But so it is : besides in the midst of 

 Cambrosia is a white spumation, or a frothy fo- 

 ming sparkling spry, that resembles via lactea ; 



