( I'H' 5 
f fore immoderMe Flax 0/ Mcnflrua, (Fc. But 
let thofe yeho nre afflified with the Drep/tCj Confumption^ HefHch^Fe- 
, very Fellow Jaimdice-y GortorrhaUj Xeprofy or Bloody Flux, as alfo 
allbreedinglVomen, avoid the nfe of them. 
Of the lame -weight with this of the Pepper Bath, which, as is 
faid above, is equal to that of Rain Water, he often found the 
Waters of other Springs, which he therefore efteems the 
niorerefinedly dilUlfd^ and as fuch, they are not only drank, but 
even quaiT’d off in large Qitantities, by Strangers as well as 
tives. 
II. Several of his Obfervations about METEORS, are nolcfs 
remarkable than thole on the Waters. The South fide of the 
SL’ RENE IV j^LPSy he tells us, are perpetually cover’d with 
I p. 9 . Snow, and thofe Rocks of Perennial Ice of a pale blew Colour, 
call’d FlRNfjy which, as it feems from other Writers, as well as- 
our Author, are no great Rarity in tjie Alpsy tho’ 1 could hear of 
no fuch thing in Scotlandy and am Pure there’s nothing like it at 
Snowdoriy and our other High Mountains of Wales. For this rea- 
fon, the Natives call the Southern fide of Alps ^ DIE WIN- 
TERLICH SEITE for Winter fideQ and the Northern, DIE 
SOMMERLICH SEIT. Even the' Valley of ENGELBERG\ 
bccaufe guarded on all fides with fuch High Mountains, has al- 
ways fuch a cold Air, that it has given occafion to the Proverb ; 
The pleafant Weather of Engelberg *, winter thirteen Alonthsy 
and all the refi of the year Summer : 
Which agrees with that of the Grifons in RHiNWALDy wiliofay, ■ 
The Year with them has three Months of exceeding cold Weather, 
and nine Winter. 
it, 2. p. 4. He is of Opinion that cold Weather gains Ground. Jn this 
cay d Age of the World^ fays he, mofi of the Seafons of the Tear grow 
colder 'y, the Winter longer y the Summer Jhorter^ the Wine pale and 
harjh. The People take notice, and he adds, that he can 
alfo confirm their Obfervation; that the Quantity of Siiqw on 
their Mountains increafes annually; infomuch that in Places 
where in Man’s Memory, the Snow th ic fell in Winter would all 
dilToJve the Summer following, to the great fupport of Cattle and 
Coro- 
