the water, like the appearance of a smoakiag chimney 

 in a calm day. Sometimes it stood as a pillar' some 

 yards above the sea, and then'spread itself and scattered 

 like smoke. One spout came down to the very middle 

 of tiiis pillar, and joined with it. Afterwards if pointed 

 to the pillar at some distance, first in a perpendicular, 

 and then in an oblique line. 



" It was hard to say, whether this spout fell first from 

 the cloud, or the pillar rose first from the sea, both ap- 

 pearing opposite to each other* as in the twinkling of an 

 eye. But in another place the water rose up to a great 

 height, without any spoilt pointing to it. Only here, 

 the water did not rise like a pillar, but flew scatterm^ly, 

 and advanced as a moving bush upon the surface of the 

 sea. This proves that the rising of the water may begin 

 before the spout from the cloud appears. 



" All these spouts, but especially the great one towards 

 the end, began to appear like a hollow canal, along the 

 middle of which one might distinctly perceive the sea 

 .v/ater fly up very swiftly : soon after the spout broke in 

 the middle* and disappeared by little and little : the 

 boiling up, yea* the pillar of sea water continuing a con- 

 siderable time after.'* 



There is something very uncommon in the Fetter, a 

 lake which parts East and West Gothland. It is about 

 eighty miles long and eighteen Iroad. Its water is very 

 clear, and in some places so deep, as not to be sounded 

 by a line of three hundred fathom, it is often disturbed 

 by storms, which sometimes begin so suddenly* that the^ 

 surface of the water is agitated, before the least breath 

 of wind is perceived. And it is not urxcommoii for boats, 

 in one part of the lake to be tossed by a violent storm,, 

 while others at a small distance, are in <i perfect cairn. 

 Immediately before a storm, while the slo is clear, a 

 noise is perceived in the lake like thunder. Of this the 

 inhabitants oi' Visijjgorc, an island in the middle of the 

 lake, are more sensible than any oiheis. For from that 

 pait of the island, whence the wind will blow, they heas 

 a noise/ like the firing of a cannon, \Yhenever this is 



