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Ground they catch a great Number of Quails. 6, The 
M/7/(f^ being inn, there is good Fafture for Cattle. 7. When 
the Lake is dry, there is great variety of Hunting ; there 
coming out of neighbouring Woods and Mountains plen- 
ty ofHares, Foxes^ Deer^Swine^ Bearsy &c, fo foon as t lie 
Water is gone. 8. When it is full, one may Fifh in it. 
9. In Winter time it will be fo firmly frozen as to bear all 
forts of Carriages, and is a great convenience to the People 
to fetch their Wood and other Neceffaries j iaftlyatthe 
time when the Water goes away, it yields great abun* 
dance of Fifh, as has been already laid And that which 
is moft Wonderful is, that all this comes to pafs in the 
fame place, and the fame Year, vrz. If the Lake be ear* 
ly dry, and it fill not too foon ; but it is to be noted, that 
the Hay does not grow, nor is the Millet fown all over the 
Lake, but only in the more fertile places. 
There are only three forts of Fifh taken in this Lake, 
which are very well tailed. TIif.7 are the MufieU ¥la*vi^ 
attlis or Eel-pout J fome of them weighing 2 or 3 Pounds. 
Temh, fbme of them weighing 6 or 7 Pounds ; and third* 
ly Pikes in very great plenty, of 10, 20, 30, and fbme of 
40 Pound weight; in theBeUies of thefe it is common to 
find wliole Ducks. Crdbs are found no where but in the 
Pitts Kjxmine and SueinskAjamma \ they are large but ill 
tafted. 
The Caufe or rather Modm of all thefe wonderful Ph^- 
mmem in the Lake of ZJrkmtz is, according to my Opi- 
nion and Speculations, as fDlloweth. There is under the 
Bottom of the Lake, another Subterraneous One, with 
which it communicates by the Several holes defcribed : 
There are ahb one or more Lakes/under the Mountain Ja- 
v.ornik, but whofe furfaceia higher than that of the Lake 
QiZ^rknitz. This upper . Labe is pollibly fed by fbme 
of rhofe many Rivers, which rn this Country bury them- 
felves underground, and has PafTage fufficient to carry 
the Waters they ordinarily bring unto it ; but when it 
/ Rains, 
