ever great mountains ] and coming from tt , I pafs'd over Stvan- 
zenherg or the Black mountain, from whence I defcended lo. 
miles in a rocky Country j and farr more ftony than the Cr4u oi* 
Cmfuslafidofus in Provence 1, znd (o to AiJofchm and GoritU^ 
snd leaving thQ Sdavonian behind 5 entred into the Lingua FhI- 
Unit J and fo onto this Noble and incomparably fortified City; 
where being yet uncertain , whether I fliould go to Vemce ^ I 
would not omit to prefent you this accorapt , which I befeech 
you to accept fromc^^*, 
Falmannva in f r;W/ June 1 5. 166^, 
An Acc^mpfrow the {me Br. Brown 
Cmerning an Vn-coj^won Lake ^ called fkZitchnltz^tS^^^^^ 
Carniola, 
Jtl ^i?/ in the Carnick Alpes , by that noble paflage, cut 
through the Rooks , and vaulted like that of Paufilypen^av Na- 
ples 5 I had a defire to take a view of the Lakeoi Zirchnitz 5 f o 
much fpoken of, and written on by fo fewi and therefore I 
went unto Crainburg upon the River Savus , and fo to Ldach ^ 
the chief City of C4r;;/W4 5 from whence I continued my Jour- 
ney in betwixt the Hills and a great Marfli , till I csme 
to Brounizza^ two leagues from whence and beyond ihe Hills 
- is feated the faid Lake , receiving that name from Zirchnitz 3 a 
townof about 300, houfes. 
This Lake is near two German Miles long , and one broad. 
On the South-fide thereof lyes a great Forreft, wherein are 
many Deer , and wild Boares, Wolves and Bears, On the 
North fide the Country is flat • but the whole Valley is eBCon> 
paffed with Hills, at fome diftance from it. 
This Lake is well fiU'd wi h Water forthe greateft part of the 
Year 5 but in the Month of ^une it finketh under ground^not on- 
jly by percolation or falling through the pores of the Earth , but 
jtetireth under ground, through many great holes at the bottom 
of it: And in the Month of September it returns by the fame, 2nd 
• fo in a very Ihorttime fills up the Valley again. 
As the time of the waters Defcent is (hort , «r^pecially when 
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