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all fides, iscondenfed into Water ; and that triekline down ftag. 
nates in thofe great Cavities we call Bydt-ophy/acm. whence after- 
wards by Subte raneous Natural Aqueduclts, the Waters are con 
vej'd to this Village, and thofe Neighbouring Places where we lie 
them break forth. The Inhabitants are laid to have made an Ex- 
periment to find out the Subterraneous Pafiage of the Gorf • which 
was, the calling down fome Saw-Dull at a Cleft of the Mountain, 
towards the pp, where they heard the noife of running Water* 
and thofe who were left to watch below, found the Dull come 
out at the Spring. They pretend to diftinguilh fome of thofe 
Waters from others as to Goodnefs, tho’ our Author, upon 
Tryal, found them aU of the fame weight. The People that live 
here, tho* in all other Refpeas very lively and healthy, b-coine ‘ 
fooner Gray and Bald pated than elfewhere; and this tliev all ar 
tribute to their drinking thefe Waters. ^ 
I mull not here omit the giving you fome Account of the ^Iph?e 
Torrents, which do fometimes Incredible Damage in t'hefe Conn 
tries Thefe they call a Word agreeing with v-ur 
BRVNNEN [Springs] does With 
The Firll he takes notice of, is the SVREITENBACH at the . 
LESSER AVBRIG ; which often lays the Farms walleby its fud- * * 
den Inundations, I he River Nolla, fays he, vehkh fprinas at the it 2 v 2? 
Ftfcf o/Beiierin Monntain, vom fo called hy the AncientSy<juaJi 
Ja, but in oar Day sit enlarges daily its Botmds \ and is fo Rapid and 
Defiraaive, that it often raines whcle Fields, Hoafes, and Stables 
It’S eafily diftinguilh ’d in the Rhine from that River, by its Black ' 
Colour j which he attributes partly to the Swiftnefs of both 
Streams, but chiefly to the weight of the Nolla, by which it for- 
ces It felf thro’ the lighter Water of the Rhine. The Black Mud 
of the Nolla, which contains plenty of very fraall Cubical Pyriu 
IS the occalion of its Colour. At Flims he faw the Deftrudion 
wrought by a fraall Brook [a little before his coming) call’d ^ 
Deri^ BLAVNE, which flowed with fo much Violence ft^om the 
abovementioned OBERALB Mountain, that breaking its Bank 
and taking a new courfe, it almoll ruin’d half the Town The’ 
Houfes were batter’d thro* by an Infinite number of Stones • Sta- 
bles and Barns broken, and Rooms of dwelling Houfts fill’d up with 
Mud, Earth a.id Gravel. Such a Flood they call where 
of one had happen d at this Place before, in the Year 1687, an4 
^ ^ another 
