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the Lake grows lower , and hath for a while (licwed feme abate- 
ment , fo the Afcent and return is fpcedy ; for at thefe holes ic 
mounteth with fach violence^that it fprings out of the ground 
to the height of a pike, and foon covers the traft of Earth 
again. 
And thisp'eceof grouniinthctimeof the retirement and ab- 
fence of the Water is not unfruitful , but by a fpeedy and plen- 
tiful prodtidliqfl or Grais yicldeth -not only a prefenc fuftcnance 
for the beafts of the field ^ but a good provifion of hay for the 
cattle in the winter. 
Nor have the Inhabitants thereabout only the benefit ot the 
ground bv thefe Commodities , but alfo the recreation and pro- 
fit by Hunting. For at the time of the waters abfence. Hares, 
Deer , Boares and other Animals come into it out of the neigh- 
bouring Forreft and Country , and are taken feveral wayes by 
them. 
The Lake is not only thus fiU'd with water, but every year 
Will ftored with fifii. The Prince of ^^-itf/^^^r^ is Lord of ic 
and of much Country thereabout: But upon reftoring of the wa- 
ters all have liberty to Fiflij and the fifliermen^ ftandlngop 
to the waft at the holes before- mentioned , intercept the paffage 
ofcheFifli, and take a very great number of them , which o- 
therwife would be fecure for fome Months under the Earih^ a»d 
not fail to return in Seftcmher. 
The Fifliof this Lake have a clofcr habitation than thofe of j- 
ny other I know-, for, they pafs fome Months under the Earth, 
and a good part of the Winter under Jce. I could not karn, 
that there were any otters in this Lake, (which otherwife muft 
probably have taken the fame Courfc with the fifli ; ) nor that 
there were any remarkable exrrcineousiiubftances , any Vegeta- 
bles, or unknown Fiflies brought up by the water, biu thofe 
which come up are of the fame kmd with thofe which def- 
cended, / . ^ : • 
But befide thefe holes at the bottom of the Lake (of whidh 
there are m my ,) there areaUb divers Caverns and deep places in 
the Coun ly ofC^mW^, ev^^nwhere there is no water ^ afterthe 
like manner as wehavem the Pcack comtry , and at Eldeti-hol 
in England, 
half; 
