404 MifcelUma Curiofa. Vol. IIL 



An accurate^ efcri ft ion of the Lake 

 of Geneva^ not long fmce made 

 by d Terfon that had vifited. it 

 divers times in the fleafantefi 



. feafon of the Tear and com- 

 municated to the TuMiJher by 

 one of his ^arifian Correfpn^ 

 dents : EngliJFd as foUoweth. 



YO U have reafon, Sir^ to demand of 

 me an Account of the Lake of Geneva^ 

 which^ in my opinion, about this Seafbn of 

 the Year (in Jme) is one of the moft pleaf- 

 ant Places of the World. This is the Third 

 time I have vifited it, and I am, if I may fay 

 fo, more charmed with it than the firft. 



1 ftiall fay nothing of the Alfes^ nor of 

 mount Jura^ which do environ it, which by 

 this Lake as by a large Ditch, are feparated 

 from one another : For that would not give 

 you a fufficiently fair Idea of the Country* 

 I3e pleafed therefore to reprefent unto your 

 ielf a Croiflant of Water, one extremity 

 whereof is Eighteen Leagues diftant from the 

 other, and the Banks of which are gently 

 raifed to fome heights, then to collines, and 

 at length to ftupendious Mountains ; which 

 yet are not fo linked to one another but 



that 



