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in the higher Grounds mixt with Hail, which fell in fuch a qiian- 
“ tity'on the Mountains of Niderurn^ that there were Heaps of 
“ them as high as Houfes^ wherein whole Firr- Trees, which the 
‘‘ Waters had eradicated, fwam upright •, whence fo immenfe a 
‘ Quantity of Water colleded in the after having ruin’d 
‘‘ the Mountain PaUurcs, was born down with fuch Violence, 
I “ rooting up Firrs and, other vaft Trees, and rowling before it ' 
' “ Gravel and ^tones. By this means the Channel of the Brook, 
at the Foot of the Mountain, may be fuppos’d to have been 
' Hop’d for feme time ; whence breaking forth afterwards with 
' the greater force, and at unufual and deep Places, the fatal con- 
i “ fequence here defer ib’d naturally enfii’d. 
The Helvetian and Grifofj Jlps afford, it feems, no fmall number 
of Periodical Rivulets, fuch as our Latribourn in Bcrk(lnre de- 
ferib’d by the Poet Sylvefier and Mr. Hippipy^. Thefe, they call 
METBRVNNE^S^ or May Springs ; one of which he met with in 
his Firft Journey, from its White Colour, calld, DER MILCH- 
BACH\ w'hich flows out of a Mountain Lake, call’d, ALVELEli * 
SEE LI only in the Months of 7 «wand Juiy. Another he men- 
tions at GRAFF £ NORTH, betwixt the Abbey of £ NGELBERG , . 
and the Town of IT( 9 LFAi['A" 5 C///£ 5 ', calPd'from the extraordi- 
nary Coldnefs of the Water, DEi- K ALTE BRl 'NN. This 2. 
breaks out about the third Alay, and dcTiHs towards the middle of 
tember. It was look’d upon as ominous, that in the Year 1700, 
it Ihould continue to the Month of Ollober. Another of the fame 
fort, not far off, is call’d, DER DVRBRVNNEN.' In the Val-//, 2. c. ie» 
ley of F'ATTISTFIAL he takes notice of two Brooks, call’d, 
gORBSBACH, one whereof is about two, and the other three 
Foot over, at their firfi: appearance out of the Rocks •, whence he 
I concludes, there muft be fome vaft HydrophyUdhm, or Natural 
Ciftern in the Bowels of the Mountain. Thefe, tho’ they are not 
fo call’d, obferve the. fame Courfe. with the MtTBRVNNEN'^ 
and in the 2d Table he has given us a Drauglu of the Mountain, 
.and the ifluing forth of thefe Springs. But the moft eeiebrated, z/. i. t, 2c^ 
I and particularly remarkable, is that of the Valley of HASHTHAL . * 
I in BERN. This Fountain ohferves a double Courfe or Period \ one ^ 
i Annual, and the other Diurnal or Horary. It flows oqly three 
I Months, viz., from .the midlt of AUy to the midit. of A 
* fPloF^ 7 ^ 41 .- Hp of ScafFordillire, p. 57.. Para^r^ph. 46. 
