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3 • Q:. Whether thefe Holes be the fame every year , whether 
no New ones are made ^ A. The great Holes are the fame every year; 
but poffibly parcof the water may fometimes find or make new 
palTages through Che crevices and cribrous pares of the Field. 
4. QAVhether they have not [earched into thefe Holes, mi do not 
fee the water at the bottom of thefe holes y or in vpells^ at the time when 
this Lake is discharged of the greatefi fart of its water f A. They 
have fearched into thefe holes^and when the water goeth firrt away, 
they fee ic in them for a while, but afterwards it defcends lower 
out of their fighu ' • 
5. Q. Whether ^ when the water is defcended in June into thofe 
Ho!es^ there remains none of it in this Lake in places ^bove thofe 
holes f A* There remains at that time no water, ac leaft noc any 
that is confiderable for any time in places more elevated than thofe 
holes, moftof it draining away towards the holes in the Valleys ; 
thereftiseitheriaibibed by the Earth, or, if any remain in the 
hilly or rocky parr, it is evaporated. 
6. Whether there be not thereabout fome River j or Snow, or 
Ice^ that may furnifh this Lake with the water that returns into it 
in September ? A. The Snow fails not till after the Lake is returned 
There are divers confiderable Rivers in the Countries aboiit this 
Lake; but thefe fiirnifli not this Lake, but run a contrary way. 
And \ could not learn, whether thefe Rivers did increafe or de- 
creafe upon the defcent or return of the water of this Lake. 
7. How thofe that take the Fijh at the return of the water, can 
remain at the f lace of the holes y when the water comes to rife high 
and with force ? A. I affirm, not that they take the Fifh when the 
water afcend5f, but when it defcends. For, befides that the water 
Tpreadsfpeedily^ the Prince of ^ri'^^^^r^, who is Lord of this 
Lake and the parisaboutir, will not permit them at chat time to 
make any fuch attempt , expecting to have the Lake replenifhc a- 
gain with the Fifii without dimlnifl?ing them. 
Of what bignefs are thofe Holes ^ ,and whether the openings 
of them are f erf endicuUr^ or [ide wayes ^ A. The Ho'esare of dif- 
ferent largenefs and figure ; fome perpendicular ac the beginning, 
and then oblique ; others oblique at firft ; fcarce two exaflly a- 
like. Such holes I have feen in other parts of Carnigla, and in c- 
ther Countries aTo. We have a Hole cali'd Elden-hole^ not made 
by art, but naturally in the mountain, in the Peai^-country of 
D^^j/foV^, above 80 fathoms deep. . 
9. How much the Water afcends in Scptmh^}: ^ and in what 
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