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j}aciof timet A. The water afcends fp plentifully, that it fills the 
Lake inafliort time, efpecially the Vajleys, and the hole in as 
Ihdrc a fpace, as a Field of about two leagues long and one broad 
can well be filled \ but I cannot deteruVm it to a day : For , fome 
years the water arifeth fo plentiful ly, that it fills all about Kider- 
dorf, and almoft to Zirchnitz, 
10. Qj^ Whether the vpater returning u turbid or clear A, The 
water that fpouts feems fomewhat clear in the Air, but being fpread 
aboutj looks as formerly in the Lake. 
I i.Q^Whe^her the rvater being all returned in September, re;»<i/;i7i 
until the month ofYmtfollomng at one and the fame hight .<? A. The 
water is not alwayes at the fame highth, but fomewhat differing ac- 
cording unto rains, fnows, or drought ; and they are fenfible of its 
Eighth by the tops of the hills in it and its fpreading towards Z/>^^- 
mtz ; but it alters not very much till it begins to go away. 
r 2. Q. Whether no River enters thu Lake ; and rvhether it have 
m other way of discharge but by thefe fubterraneom Openings I A. No 
River enters it, but only inconfiderable Rivolets on the South and 
Eaft-fide ; nor hath it any other difcharge known,but by the holes. 
1 3 Whether the Scituation of this Lake in refpe^ of the neigh- 
houring Country he not very high} A. The Country is high about the 
Lake, but theLake is not high in refpeft of the Country near ir, 
but low. Travelling from this Lake towards Idria^ a place noted 
for Quickfilver-mines, I found the Country mountanous ; there are 
Mountains between ic and and between it and the Sea ; there 
.are Mountains in D^/?^4//X and alfo towards Croatia ^ and upon 
divers Mountains in other Countries there are waters rep^.eniflic 
with Fift, as upon mount Cenis. 
14. Whether there he not fome neighbouring Hills ^ the lafl Ice 
of vohich melting in ]unGy may open a paffage to the water of this 
Lake^ andvphichheginning again to freeze September^ may Jkp a- 
gain the paff age ^ and fir ee the water to return into thu Lake ^ A. I 
did not hear of any Mountain near it , the Ice of which melting 
might open a palT^ge to the water of this Lake \ but probably this 
Lake may hold dependance of, and communication with fome fub- 
terraneous great Lake orMagazin of water belonging to thefe Hilly 
regions, which whenfull, and running over, may ven'c ir fclf with 
force and plenty into this field, and when fcantof water, abforbe 
and drink-in the fame again ; the water of the Lake returning but 
from whenceit came, having no River running out of it^ whereby 
to be difcharged^ 
