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Comfort of their Owners-, ’tis now piled in great Heaps, fijch as 
never melt at all , but on the contrary are -annually increa- 
' fed, 
. Whilfl: they afeehded the High Mountain,' call’d 5 £rAfp/?- 2. ^ .p 
BERG^ which is part of the Alp^ cn the 21ft of Augkfi\ ' * 
they were fatigued with the fevere Rain and Sleet that fell, attend- 
ed with a cold Northernly Wind. This Rain lalted all Night in the 
Valley, -tho' the adjoyning Mountains were almoft hall cover’d 
with Snow; and to Snow on Mountains whilfl: it rains in their 
Valleys, is but what often happens in our Mountains of and 
doubtlefs in the North as well in England As Scotland. 
Kt Selva ftana he takes notice of their Fountains being coverd ^ ^ 
with a very thick Ice on the 24th of Aagitfi. 
On the 'W ALL€ NbTAErER SEE^ or Lactu Ruvavitts^ in ^ 
calm and fair Weather they have Periodical Winds; which the - 
Watermen make good ufe of, as they fail from Wefen to WahUnflad, 
as alfo in their return. Early in the Morning before Sun-riling, * . 
an Eafl: Wind begins, and blows in the calm Summer Weather * . 
(whence its common Name of Hay-wcather Wind) till about Ten. 
From Ten to Twelve the Wind ceafes, and the Air is calm. Af- , 
ter Twelve a Weft Wind begins, and continues till the Evening; 
and after Sun-fet the Eaftern (which is then call’d DER OBER- 
WIND) refumes its Turn. The Northern Wind, no very wel- 
come Gueft to the Sailers, fometimes interrupts thefe Regular 
Gales. A Reflexion on the ficuation of this Lake, will give us a 
clear Account of tht Phenomenon. ThcL?ikeof WALL ENST A E 
is extended, from Eaft to Weft, in a free open Air ; and that Air 
foon admits of the Rays of the Eaftern Sun ; as Tis influenc’d aL 
To by the Weftern till the late Evening. But on the North and 
South fides of the Lake, there are exceeding High Mountains, 
which occafion that the Waves being dafli’d againft the Rocks, 
are forced b.ick^ whence that boifterous Roughnefs, which fo 
often threatens the Sailers. Hence Tis eafy to conclude, that the 
Atraofphere being rarifyM, or at leaft in fome degree expanded by 
the Rifing Sun, cannot diffiife it felf to all Quarters alike; and ib 
not being able to make an equal Diftribution of its Air, nor alto- 
gether to get rid of it, being imprifon’d betwixt the High Ridges 
of G LARIS^ ZVG ^ ?itid SARGAAS, ftis forced to take its Courfe 
Weftward. And whereas it deflfts at Ten in the Morning, ’cis 
becaufe the Sun begins then to culminate the Meridian of the Lake, 
and to alfed the whole Atmofphere impending thereon : But from 
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