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Lommo , receives many Brooks and Rivulets from the 
adjoining Mountains : It unites its Waters with the 
Bo, near Bavia, and loofes itfelf jointly with that 
River into the Adriatick Gulf. 
The Rhine, Rhenus , by Qafar de Bello Gallico 
termed, lattjjimus atque altijjimus , arifes in three fe- 
veral Branches, which are called Rhenus anterior , 
foferior , ® me dins, the further , the hinder , and 
middle Rhine . The hinder Rhine takes its Rife upon 
the high Mountain Avicula , Colmen del Occello , 
Part of the Adula , in the Alp *5^ Borta , from a 
Gletcher , or Ice-mountain, which extends in Length 
full two Hours. The middle Rhine , Rhenus medius, 
arifes upon the Ltickmannier Berg , which islikewife 
Part of the Adula, in the upper Part of a Valley called 
Maria , oppofite to one of the Sources of the 
Thefin. The further mofl Rhine , Rhenus anterior , 
arifes upon that Branch of the Crifpalt , which is call- 
ed Badut , Badtiz , and foon receives feve- 
ral lateral Branches from the Mugels and Come- 
ra. My prefent Purpofe will not fuffer me to purfue 
the Courfe of this River in its feveral Branches. Near 
the Monaftery of T)ifentis , the further and middle 
Rhine join together, and the united Stream falls into 
the hinder Rhine, near Reichenau . Below Rheineck , 
the Rhine falls into the Lacus Bodamicus , or Boden 
Sea , and comes out of it near Stein • whence wafhing 
for fometime the Borders of Swijferland , it then tra- 
verfes great Part of Germany in a very irregular 
Courfe, till at laft, in Holland , it loofes itfelf into the 
great Ocean. 
The Reufs , Rufa, arifes from a fmall Lake called 
Lago di Luzendro , upon the S. Gothard , but foon 
receives a conliderable Inforcement from the Furca, 
and 
