Bifioria Naturalis ftclvetiae Curiofa, jiuthore 
Jobt Jacobo Wagnero Af. D. Tigt^ri, 
THe Author profeffes that he undertook to write the 
Natural Htjiory pf Switzerland upon the Invitation of 
my Lord Bacon , and with an Intention thereby to pro- 
mote a true Experimental Fhtlofophy. 
He divides his BookXnio Seven SeBions. In the Firft he 
lays down the Antient and Modern Limits oi Helvetia , to- 
gether withihe general qualities of the Soil. 
. . In the Second he fpeaks generally of the name of the 
J^^j,and their heigh t,diflference of feafons and fruitfulnefs^ 
oi /t:^ remaining inrire Two or Three Hundred years, in 
which tome of the Cracks have been obftrved to be three 
or four Hundred Ells deep, of the Cold of the Labina, or. 
Heaps of Snow rolling off the Mountai?is^ and bearing down 
Woods znd tillages : of Caverns> Grottes, and great Re- 
ceptacles of W aters , of the fall of the Earth or part of 
the Mountains doing often great mifchief. 
In the Third concerning ^«^Wjhe enumerates the La^s 
7{ivers^ tatarails^ hoc and cold, Medicinal Waters 
to drink, Salt and Bituminous Springs, Petrifying wacers. 
Springs riling and intermitting at certain feafons, waters 
caufing a fwelling under the throat, miraculous or fabu- 
lous waters, a mong which he fpeaks particularly of the 
Lake of A/^^^ n^d. by Thirty Five, feveral Waters to caufe 
Terapefts/rain^ Thunder &c. if any thing were caft into 
it ; but the Author from bis own experience refutes this 
Error, and afures us that he found it a very id.mt Fuddle , 
not deferving to be calledaX^%. 
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