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under tbewatcr,^ And the water is fo deep before Veuvay, that the 
founding line at the end of four hundred fathoms feemSjbecaufe it will 
not (lay , to touch upon fonacthing flippery.*Tis held to be 500 fathoms 
deep before Rook and 'tis affirmed , that near this great depth there 
may be fecn a kind of l^e under water. 
The i^/?*?;?.? enters at one of the points of the CroiflTant into the Lake, 
and ilTuech out at the other • but with this difference, that whereas he 
comes in dirty and miry^he ever goes out fo pure and clear.that under 
the bridge oiGeneVii, where the water is deep twenty five feet in fum- 
merjou may well difcern the fmailefl: ftones at the bottom. And the 
fame wacer,which in this place appears of a Saphyrin blew in the/liade 
©fthe Houfe5,appears altogether green, nor is fo tranfparent,when 
the Sun fliines on it. 
There is a great diverfity of opinions as to the C//rr<f«r of the Rhone 
in the Lake-, fome maintaining, that /V maybe difcerned, others de- 
nying it. Having heard the fentiments ofthe Curious oi Laufame and 
C'^/W^jand the opinions ofthe moil knowing Fifhermcn^-hat are there 
in great number, and <fpecially at Coupet, I believe with the latter • 
That, although the Rhone encring into the Lake loofeth its violence, 
yet doth he itill keep fome fenfibie motion in fome places, and every 
where obferv3bIe,and that no Trouts are taken any where in this Laiie 
but in this Current of the i?/?^;;^ V which is- what thefc Fiflicrmen calf, 
to go and fifti fur le mont. 
Others there are, that go further and fay, that one may every where 
diftinguifli the water of the Lake from that of the Rhone : But the 
Fj/hermenwill not allow this, but alTert, that there is no other mark 
thanthofe lately alledged, x/j^. of the Trouts, and the Current^ and 
that the latter of thefe is alone fufficient, ifl calm weather, toobferve 
the Current of the Rhone from the place of his entring the Lake unto 
that of his going OBt, 
The water of this Lake commonly begins to incrcafe about the end 
6i muary ,or iht beginning of i^^f^rz/^r^, and continues to do fo unto 
the twentieth of .^^/7, and often unto the very month Jugnft and 
then it infenfibly decreafeth, fo that the water is Jefs high in winter 
than fummer by 12 or i5ieet the frofts draining the Springs, or ra*'^ 
ther freezing tht; waters that iflue out of them. 
About this Tncreafe of the water there are alfo different opinionrr 
*Tis true,they all beiievein general, that the principal caufeof the in- 
creafe ofthe water is the meitingof the Snow, and of tberaountanous 
Ice, that is in the winter formed of the waters of the Spnngs and Tor- 
rent^jwhich the froit fixeth. This is fo true, that when there is much 
fnow in winter, the waters are very high the enfuing Summer. But 
when great Rains chance to fali in 'fanuary^^ihtVi the Snow, not yet be- 
ing well hai dned, melteth on a fudden altogether. And when thi& 
melting is not fo-vioient,all the Snowythat will melt, mtjts at the end 
