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coming forth again, that is, above Geneva. 

 And the nearer he comes to that Town, the 

 more his Bed becomes narrow, and confe- 

 quently his courfe more Rapid. Yet this 

 Rapidnefs hath been in our times once fur- 

 mounted by Wind, and once by Water. To 

 underftand which, you may imagine, that in 

 Geneva there is a ftreak of Land about an 

 hundred Fathoms long, which divides the 

 Rhone into two parts, pafiing under four 

 Bridges, then covered with Houfes. From 

 the Point of this Ifle unto feveral ranks of 

 Stakes on that fide of the Town, there are 

 about a Thoufand common Paces. This 

 whole fpace of Water, which makes the fi- 

 gure of an V (whereof the Ifle is the Point, 

 and theTown forms the fides, and the Stakes 

 the empty place of the end) hath been once 

 laid dry by a violent Wind, aftet this man- 

 ner. One Day in the Winter of the Year 

 1645. there arofe in the Morning about 9 

 ja clock fo furious a Wind, that not only it 

 uncovered the Houfes, but aJfo laid dry the 

 Bed of the Rhone above the Bridges, fb that 

 many, in the view of all the Town crolfed 

 guite over it dry-foot, and one of the Sons 

 oi ls/l> D. Aubigny took up fome Medals, 

 which he found in his way. This pafiage was 

 free during an Hours time v at the end of 

 which the Rivers retook its courfe. At that 

 Seafon the Water being very low, and a 

 Weft-Wind, to arrive at Geneva^ being prefi- 

 ed by the high Mountains that bring it up- 

 on the Town as by the nofe of a pair of Bel- 

 lows i it; came to pafs, that that Wind did 

 violently bear upon the Water near the faid 



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