fide there Isjbetwcen tha Mountains and the Lake,a fmall 
territory, which tho narrow is neverthelefs plea{ant,and is 
inhabited by one Town, three Caftles and nine Villages, 
adorned with twenty Churches ; as may be feen in the 
Map I ihnd X Fig.I) which was drawn by my felf upon 
,the;pla;C^, vyith all pqff^^^^ . . 
' !fo :the Moiintd^ llaliHlrtg near ittie 
Lake, there are two holes, or exceeding deep precipices, 
in.whiqh maayJ:hou&rid M/ild Pidgeon§ rpoft all.Uie .Win- 
ter; entring in Autumn, and coming out with tlie* firft 
of the Spring^: Wl^t they Uve upon ir^ thefe caverns is 
unknown, Btif I'tafe it to Be the Nitrous Sand. In the o- 
ther hill called Slivenza, tis the belief of the Country Peo- 
ple that: the Witches hbld there afTemblys, becaufe that 
leveral tinies; lights Yikt Jgf7es fatui are obferved there. 
t)n the top of this hill is a hole of an unkno\vnde{3th, out 
"of which there often 'breath but noxious fteams, fuppoled 
to occafion tempefts of Thuhdd^ and Lightning^ and Hail; 
and for this reafon the Prleft of Zirckmts every Whitfm- 
'Mt^^ddy goes to the Hole in Procelfion, and ufes over it a 
tcitaih form of Exoreifine. -^^, ■ — ^ - ..vni: : 
^ ' There ruriri iiltd this Lake cohtiilually eight Rivulets. 
^Fhe t W6 leaft are called Beiy rech arid Trefenz. ; the third 
is the fountain O^^r^^, out of which abundance of Water 
gufhes with great force ;' the fourth fifth and fixth called 
%teberziza^ l^ipfmzrzdmd Seromjchiza^ may for. their big- 
nefs defer ve the na^me of Rivefs ; the feaveritlv called 
'M^tinfchizi breaks oiit at a cleft in tSie ■ Rock : ■ The Laft 
r^^kA CiYknizer-bacl) is a pretty larg River. • 
- ' Mow this Lake being every where forrounded with 
•Mounta ffis^aiid ho ivhete runiiing over, Nature has given 
it two viiible Channels ftony- Caverns^ t'^t^ Velkx^ 
^X^rlouza and Maid /C^r/ by-^hich the Water runs 
under the Mountain; and a third concealed fubterraneous 
PafTage, which without,d©iabt comrntinicates with the o- 
■jthbr two tod^t jgrouad^^as Plhall hereafter prove )Thefe 
bfiH Grrat^'. i:^: nO laVu nv/oi^'isv-Ji^viM 
