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Alpes of Cafar *. They begin in the upper Vallefia , 
traverfe the Canton of ‘Vri , and fo run on Ea ft wards, 
a-crofs the Country of the Grifoons , towards Tirol . 
Their greatefl Height above the Level of the Sea, may 
be fixed in round Numbers to 750 o, or 8000 Tar is 
Feet. 
*Tis upon thefe very Mountains, that fome of the 
mod confiderable Rivers of Europe take their fir ft 
Rife, within very fmall Diftances of each other. The 
Rhofne, for Inftance, Rbodanus , by Marcellinus call- 
ed, maximi nominis flumen , and by Varro , Fluvius 
inter tres Europe maximus , arifes from two G letch - 
*r.r, as we call them, or Montes glaciates, huge Moun- 
tains of Ice, near the Furca , whofe Height hath been 
above determined, and thence runs with great Impetu- 
ofity down Vallefia , the tValliJferland , forming a 
long Valley, furrounded on both Sides with huge 
Mountains, till it loofes its Waters and Name in the La - 
Lemannus , or Lake of Geneva , but refumes it 
again near the Town of Geneva, whence it flows with 
a more gentle Defcent through fome Provinces of France 
into the Mediterranean Sea. 
The Thefin, Ticinus , by Claudian , in his Pane- 
gyric upon the Confulate of the Emperor Honor ius, 
called Fulcher , handfom, takes its firft Rife from 
two fmall Lakes upon the S. Gothard ', and fome late- 
ral Sources from the Lago fopra la Cima di Fettine , 
upon a Mountain called Fettine, the Lago della Sella, 
the Lake of Rot tom upon the Luckmannier Berg , the 
Lake of Tom , and the Lake of Bedret to, upon a Moun- 
tain of this Name. It defcends the Lavinia Vallis , 
or Liviner Valley , and in its Way to the Lake of 
* De Bello Gallico 1. in. . 
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