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Earth ; bui? by rearfQatfie RivQir. was then up,, we cduU 
go ao tertb^r;. At Qthsr tiroes. wUea tiy^ Water i$ dowa, 
aae may go witln lighted Torches a great way nadet 
grouad I aaci 'tis laid' there am here very odd Fig,iju es fur- 
XUSid by th^ peti'ifi^d Water ; anoong the,ceft^ c^Cea^ 
bJiflg a W?ave;r at Wcjrk,, of which the Cf>mitf >] Pcc^k 
^;^aat,not their S^upef ftitiauis Ttaditions^ . ijV/^ r 4q 
Rut tOiretarAta our Lake ; 1% tli,at abblit ^'Feaft 
pf St. jok^ Ba,ptifi op Sc, "J^mes'Tuky and fQn;ietimes oat 
till u^/^/^, thjQ' Water tuas away and it is dry : But itfilU 
agwi wft CQinrnoaly in, O^oveir or Nmembef:^ yet £0 a6 
aot;tQ cOh'^erve an.y certaia time ; for Iqmtiines k has been 
dri^. twic^ or thriiceia a Year : as in the Year 1685, it was 
dnu ia X w^r^ Ag^n tlip Water begjan to draw oflF,on the 
1. 5,^^- Qi Aiigufi Sc. M and it was quite cl^ar by the 8^^ of 
4V^/.and this ptefeat Year 168.7 ,jit has been thriccempty, 
which mates. t,he ffifh^ng very poor aad incoafiderable. 
Sometimes again;, tbo' but fcldom, it has hapaed to be 
three or four Years together full of Water,. aad then is the 
beftof the Fifhing. But it never yet was. oblerved that 
thisXake was dry for a whple Year tjogether. 
^ The riglit of Fillaiqg iathis^ Lake, upon, certaia Terms 
^reed on, doe^ at thiJ^ time belong to, the Lordfhips or 
Paflles following, i. to Haa^fjfergj 2. Steegherg^ J,. L^^, 
4. Sclmecperg, 5. Avejj^rgy k. iQj^iUiiim^:^^ :V^A^]^ M^ ^^ 
a^ftery ot CiJ-atJau: Monh^ ^-^ ( h } t'« (^r r-* -'^ r 
^( There are three, Hands ia t/iisl lUke, 'viz,. MaU^GcrizA 
ajad Felka-Gorlzs which are oainhabited. The third is a 
^ery pretty Hand called Voirnek tha^ is reafonably big, hav- 
ing upon.it a Village of four Houfes called U^/t?y^;abovc this 
Town upon a litde eminence ftaads> a^ Church, which is 
^o fmall Ornament. Thole that live on it have Fields^ 
MeddQws, Paftures,. Wood, Gardens and Orchards, and 
^11 things necelTfiry for Life. 
There is alfb a very fine PemnfuU all covered with 
Wopd, c^U^^d Eforvrf^h Whea the« Lake i& ug, ,aad one 
V.i . comes 
