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men that are there in great Number, and e* 

 lijiedally at Coupet^ I believe with the latter ; 

 that, although the Rhone entring into the 

 .Lake lofeth its Violence, yet doth he ftill 

 keep fome fenfible Motion in fome places, 

 and every were obfervable, and that no Trouts 

 are taken any were in this Lake, but in this 

 Current of the Rhone ^ which is what thefe 

 Fifliermen call, to go and Fifli fur le mom. 



Others there are, that go further and fay, 

 that one may every where diftinguifh the 

 Water of the Lake from that of the Rhone". 

 But the Fifliermen will not allow this, but 

 aflert, that there is no other Mark than thol^ 

 lately alledged, viz^. of the Trouts, and the 

 Current \ and that the latter of thefe is 

 alone fufficient, in calm Weathei^ to obferve 

 the Current of the Rho7ie from the place of 

 his entring the Lake unto that of his going 

 out. 



The Water of this Lake commonly begins 

 to Increale about the end of Janvary^ or the 

 beginning of February^ and continues to do 

 fo unto the twentieth of July^ and often un- 

 to the very Month of Augnft and then it 

 infenfibly decreafeth, fo that the Water is 

 lefs high in Winter than Summer by twelve 

 or fifteen Feet ^ the Frolts draining the 

 Springs, or xather Freezing the Waters that 

 iflue out of them. 



About this Increafe of the Water there 

 are alfo different Opinions. 'Tis true, they 

 all believe in general, that the principal 

 caufe of the Increafe of the Water is the 

 melting of the Snow, and of the Mounta- 

 tious Ice, that is in the Winter form'd of 



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