1 ■■ V.,' 
X. Part of a[Letter from the Reverend Mr Goiiiv 
• don, £ K. to the Publi/J:er, cmcermng a 
^^^^£atara^^- mar Gottcnberg and the remains of 
the obfervatory of the famous TyQho limhc, 
SIR, 
Rummaging among' .my , Papers this morning, l 
found two curfpi^y Remarks made in . my l^ite 
Voyage to the Baltic k\ The. firft concerns a 
remarkable Water- fall in ^ipeie?^, and the other' T^^ 
Brakes^ ruined Obfervatory on the Iflandpfe^ As ro^ 
the firft : 
While the E^^/^tS and IJ/^^^-z^ anchored off of G^^ 
burg to Water, I went up to tiie Town, where I was 
infprm<i that feveral Leagues up in the Country, there 
was a prodigious Waterfal to be feen^ I was eager to 
feejt, out could not, unlefs refoly'd to !ofe theTleetj 
however, I took an account of it^rpm a perfon of ve|*y 
good credit, and it is as fQlloweth. 
GonenhurgKviQX ( as they call it ) running a great 
way down out of the Country, at fome Leagues di* 
ftance itomGottenburg it comes ta a prodigious high 
Precipice , and ruflieth down from thence with mighty 
force and terrible noife. And whereas it is by this Ri^ 
ver that the Natives oi the Country bring down their 
Floats of Timber to Gomnburg^ efpecially Mafts for 
Ships, I was told that the impejtuous Current rulbing 
down from the Precipice into a deep Pi^^ is fo fofcible, 
ttiat many oi the Mafts f which ufually turn topfy-turf 
in their fall ) do of tea fly tq pieces when dafh'd a*- 
Ppppp gainft 
