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proportioo of other planes after the putting forth of their 
branches. Thofc Roots^that you have obferved^aie a good 
aigument^ that thefe Stones were originally pieces of Vege- 
tables, Wonderful it is.that they (hould be all broken, and 
iiot one plant found remaining entire : And no lefs wonder- 
tUijthat there (hould not at this day be found ihe like vege- 
tables growing upon the Sub-aiarioe rocks; unlefs we will 
fuppofe them to grow at great depths under water. And who 
knows but there may befuch bodiesgrowing on the rocks 
at this day, and that the Fiihers for Coral may find of them 5 
tho being of no ufe they negkft and caft them away. Certain 
it isjthere is a fort of Coral jointed* 
J farther Defmption and Reprefentation of the Icy A/omtain^ 
called /^e Gletfcher, in the Canton of Bqxdq in Helvetia 3 
which was formerly ta{en notice of in Numb. 49. of thefe 
Trails. 
^T^His account was imparted to us from Paru by that wor* 
Jl thy and obliging perfon, MoDfieurj?/i/?^/,who had re^ 
ceived it from a trufty hand living upon the place^as follows; 
The Icy Mountain, of which I have fent you the 
Scheme defcrves to be view'd. The letter -4 fig- 
nifiesihe Mountain it fclf, which is very high, and extends it 
felf every year more and more over the neighbouring mea- 
dow^^j by increments that make a great noifeand cracking. 
There are great holes and caverns, which are made when the 
Iceburfts5 which happens at all timesj but efpeciallyin the 
Dog-daysv Huntersdo there hang up their game they take 
during the great heatj to make it keep fweet by that means> 
Very little of the furface melts in fummcr, and all frcezeth a- 
gaio iothe night* When the Sun fhineth, there isfeen fuch 
a variety of colors as io a Prifm. 
B. is arivolct, ifluing forth from under the Ice, which is 
pretty deep and extreamly cold* 
aretheHutts^tbat wercbuiJtatthebeginningjata con- 
fidcrable diftance from the Mountain $ but at prtfcnt they 
are nigh to it by reafon of the coniioual increaic which this 
Icemaketh. 
There isfuchan other Mcumain near and ^upcn the 
Alps 
