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gine,that in GenevA thefc is a ftrcakof Land about an hundred fathoais 
long, which divides the Rhone into two parts, pafling under four 
bridges, then coverM with houfes. From the point of this Ifle unto fc- 
veral ranks of (lakes on that fide of the Town there are about a thou- 
fand common paces. This whole fpace of water, which makes the fi. 
gureofanV (whereof the Ifle is the point, and the Town formes the 
fides S and the flakes, the empty place of the end J hath been once laid 
dry by a violent wind, after this manner. One day in tkc winter of 
the Year 1645» there arofc 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,crolTed quite over it dry-foot, «nd one of the fonsof M. D' Ah- 
hlgny cook up fome medals, which he found in his way. This pafl'age was 
free daring an hours time S at the end of Vv'hich the R^ivers retook its 
courfe. At that feafon the water being very low, and a weft- wind, to 
arrive at S'ip^^t/'^, being pre (led by the high mountains, that bring it up- 
on the town as by the nofe of a pair of bellows ^ it came to pafs, that 
that wind did violently bear upon the water near the faid bars^kecping 
fufpended the water that was beyond, and thofe waters, that were be- 
neath, running away downwards by a declivity, and under the flielter 
of the houfes.Whilfl: I was fcrupiing at this relation, they brought me 
Gallafim his Commentary upon Ex(j^/^/,printed^54cLV where 'tis rc- 
cordedvthat the like accident had fain out 'xx.Genevt* at the time when 
that Minifler lived there, a South- weft- wind having made the Rhone 
to retoile into the Lake, %nd many people having thereupon paffed o- 
Yer dry for an hours time. • 
Concerning the other accitJenC ; you may remember, that 
the river Arve , whith is a kind of Torrent, fails into the Rhone, 
about a 1003 paces htntil\\ Ge»6Va. In the month of December in the 
Year 2652. the faid Arve did fO extraordinarily fwell, that not only 
it over- run its banks with impetuo{]ty,hut alfo interrupted the courfe 
of the Rhone, and forced it t0>e- enter into the Lake for the fpace of 
fourteen hours y though fome do efteem^ that the Arve dif-gorged it 
fclf for that time into the Lake, by paffing over the water of the Rhone, 
which^ri their opinion, continued his courfe under the water of the 
^rve. However, the water was feen at to re-en^er into the 
Lake. 
But to coftclude^this Laked6th very mtich abound in Fifti • but that 
which is obfervable is, that thofe Fiflies have as 'twere cantonized 
themfelves,anddivided the Lake amongft them* The Trouts are not to 
be found there,bat,as hath been already mentioned, in the Current of 
the Rhone : the Carfs have taken up their quarter towards Veuvay : the 
Flkes d d Fearches have alfo thdr habitations apart. But forae other 
fifh,that arebutpaffengers, not living conftantly in j^fae Lake, fpread 
themfelves almoll every where indifferently * 
