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gme that in Gemv^ihttt is a ftrcak of Land about an hundred fathoms 
k)n2' which divides the Rhone into two parts, paffing under four 
bridges, then coverM with houfes. From the point of this Ifle unto fc- 
veral ranks offtakes on that fide of the Town there arc about a thou, 
fand common paces. This whole fpace of v^ater, which makes the fi. 
0ure of an V (whereof the Ifle is the point, and tht Town torities the 
fides and the ftakes,thcemptv place of the end J hath been once laid 
dry by a violent wind, after this manner. One day in tfec winter of 
the Year 1645* there arofe in the morning about 9 a clock fo furious 
a wind that not only it uncovered the houfes, but alfo laid dry the 
bed of the Rhone above the bridges,fo that many,in the view of all the 
town.croffed quite over it dry- foot, «nd one of the fonsof M. D'Ah- 
hkny took up fome medals,which he found in his way.This paffage was 
free during an hours time h at the end of which the Rivers retook its 
courfe. At that feafon the water being very iow,and a weft- wind, to 
arrive ^tGeneve.ht^ng prefl'cd by the high mountains, that bring it up- 
on the town as by the nofe of a pair of bellows ^ itVame topafs, that 
that wind did violently bear upon the water near the (aid bars^keeping 
fufpcndedthe water that was beyond, and thofc watery, that were be- 
neath, running away downwards by a declivity, and unUer the flieltcr 
of the houfes.Whilft I was fcrupling at this relation, they brought mc 
Gallafius his Commentary upon jEW/^/, printed 1560 S where 'tis re- 
corded, that the like accident had fain out ^tGeneva at the time when 
that Minifter lived therc,a South^- weft- wind having made the Rhone 
to recoiie into the Lake,tnd many people having thereupon paffed 0- 
yer dry for an hours time. 
Concerning the other accident you may remember , that 
the river Arve , which is a kind of Torrent, falls into the Rhone, 
about a 1000 paces beneath Geneva, In the month of December in the 
Year 2652. the faid ^ri'^ did fo extraordinarily fwell, that not only 
it over run its banks with i-mpetuofity.but alfo interrupted the courfe 
of the Rhone, and forced it to re-enter into the Lake for the fpace of 
fourteen hours ^ though fome do eilcem, that the Arve dif-gorgedit 
fclf for that time into the-Lake,by piifingoz/#r the water of the Rhone, 
which, in their opinion, continued his courfe under the wat^rof the 
Arve, However, the water was ktiid^t Geneva to re-ente^ into the 
Lake. 
But to conclude.tbis Lake doth very much abound in Fifh • but that 
which is obfervabie is, that thofe Fithes have as 'twere cantonized 
themfelvesjand divided the Lake amongit them. The Troms are notto 
be found there, but, as hath been already mentioned, in the Current of 
the Rhone : the C^r/?^ have taken up their quarter towards Veuvay :the 
Pikes and Pedrches have alfo their habitations apart. But fome other 
fifh, that are but pafferigers, not living conftantly in the Lake, fpread 
themfelves almoft every where indifferently. 
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