Snow. The Snovv,meItedby the heat of the Summer ^ other 
Snow being fain within a little while after ^ is hardned into Jce , 
which by little and little in a long mdc of time depurating itfelf 
turns into a Stone^not yeilding in hardnefs and clearnefs to Chryf- 
tall. Such Scones clofely Joyned and compaded together corTi- 
pofe a whole Mountain, and that a very firm one 5 though in 
Summer-tnw: "on ntry> people have obfoved it coburfta- 
fiindei .ackingj Thunder-like/ which is alfo well 
knowE w . ..iers to their great coft , forafoiuch as fuch cracks 
ar.d openings, being by the Winds covered with Snow 5 are 
the death of thofe , that pafs over them. 
At the foot of thefe mountains are with great labour digg'd 
out Chryftals > which are found «mong other foflils, of two forts 
and colors V fomeofthem are darkifli and troubled, which by 
fomearecaird-theChryftal-orC; to be plenteoufly found in the 
afcent of Mount Gotthard others transparent , very pure and as 
clear as Venice- glafs 5 fexangular, great and fmall.- as in the 
mountains about Valefu , and the Town cdlVd Urfelcn at the foot 
of the Hill Schelemn they are digged out , and fold at a good 
rate. Of this latter kind my Parents, four years agoe, tranf- 
mittcd a very bigg and fair one to Milm for 80, pound 
fterling. 
This is, what I have obferved about thefe Hills > What I 
lliall farther learn of the people 5 inhabiting thereabout, to whom 
I have written a month fince , I fliall impart to you. 
In Sepemkr 
Sme obfervAtions 
C0n€erning lapan , madehy an Ingenious ferfon^ that kati mnny 
fears refidedin that Country 5 as they were communicated in 
French byU. 1% whence they are thus Englijh'dhythe Pub- 
lifberf, who fome months agoe accafiondthis Accom^t hy foms 
Queries ,fent to that Traveller » 
I . ''TpHe ^apmefe doubt not at all of their Contry 's being 
j[ miflandr chough it be feparated from the Conti- 
nent by fiichnarrovy Clunnels that no veflell of any confiderabk 
burthen can pafs tiivAfl. 
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