lialfe an Englifli mile nearer the Lake than the town of zlrd- 
fjitz^ (lands a vilhgcmm^d Seaderf^ and neigherto the Lake 
than this, another vil'Sge called Niderdorf: between thefctwo 
there are Corn-fields^ yet fometimes thefe lands are alfo dro'^ n'd; 
and 'tis conceived , that there are divers fubterraneous Caverns 
under them: for,it happens fometimes at Niderdorf ^ that the 
ground finks in fe vera I places mpon the fudden retiring of the 
Lake \ and the aforefaid Prince of Eckenhrg was once fo curious, 
astodefcend into one ho'e ^ through which he paflTed under an 
Hill , and canne out on the other fide 5 as 1 was informed by Mon- 
fieur Andreas Wifer theprefent Judg of Zirchnitz , and alfo by 
^ohanes Wifer , who hath formerly held the fame place. 
The people, who are acquainted with the Lake, wet and dry , 
know where they are, and have a particular kno^dedgeof the 
eminencies> valiiesand inequahtiesofit: for^the bottom of the 
Lake is not even , or near about the fame depth , but fometimes 
two foot^and then fuddenly twenty yards deep. And becaufe 
tbcFifh haunt the deep places more than the fliallows-, they have 
given names to the 7. chiefeft cavities or valleys in the Lake. 
I tookboatati^/V^r^/p;/, and went divers miles on the Lake, 
pafling over the five fir ft valleys. I went alfo to a noted Stone, 
commonly called the Fifliers-ftone , whichhathfomewhat of the 
ufe of the Nilejcofe-ftlUr at Grand € air &h for by a certain appea- 
rance of that , they cohjedure how foon the Lake will retire, I 
alfo pafled by a noted Hill, which, when the Lakeishigh^bc* 
coracsapleafantiflands and fo I returned, 
Venice June 20. 1669. 
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