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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



Wheels, by reason of the force of the Waters, is drawn 

 to one part of the River by night, by keepers appointed 

 by the King of Sweden, or such as farm it. A vast 

 river runs by this Castle, whose depth cannot be found ; 

 it ariseth from the White Lake, and falls down by de- 

 grees : at the bottome it is black, especially round this 

 Castle, where it breeds and holds none but black Fish, 

 but of no ill taste, as are Salmons, Trouts, Perch, Pikes, 

 and other soft Fish. It produceth also the Fish Trcbius, 

 that is black in Summer, and white in Winter, who, as 

 Albertus saith, grows lean in the Sea ; but when he is 

 a foot long, he is five fingers fat : This, seasoned with 

 Salt, will draw Gold out of the deepest waters that it 

 is fallen in, and make it flote from the bottome. At last, 

 it makes the black Lake passing by Vibiirgum, as Nilus 

 makes a black River, where he dischargeth himself. 



" When the Image of a Harper, playing, as it were, 

 upon his Harp, in the middle of the Waters above them 



appears, it signifies some ill Omen, that the Governor of 

 the Fort, or Captain shall suddenly be slain, or that the 



