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Cettlcj as tire Other is TfWfomV. ’Tis doubtlefs from this kttown *' 
llgnification of the Word in that Country, that our Author ta’ cs 
the Liberty of ufing it occafionaliy in the Singular Number. 
WAT^DT^ ‘whence DIE WAND, DIE GLATTESWAND, 
DIE STAFFED WAiV D,&c. fignifics properly a Wall •, and is 
j commonly ufed, as we find by Rahmans Verfes on the Chamoifeit. 
Hunters, for any fmooth perpendicular Rock. GRADT and ' 
ECK, whatever they may herefignify, are alfo no unufual Termi- 
nations in the Names of their Mountains. As Nj^cffccks Storec, 
Sandeckj Schcidecki- Roferech-^ Setle?2gradt, Flangcngradt, Rigm- 
thalcrgradt^ &C. Bamberg he fuppofes fo call’d e^uafi B ANBhKG ^ 
becaufe of the Penalty innicxed on any one that cuts a Tree there- 
on, leaft by the Fall of Stones, &c. Houfes iliould be dellroy’^d, 
and Men and Cattle kill’d or wounded. Ban or B^an in Ireland^ 
Scotland, and Pfalti, we call any Hill of extraordinary Height; 
and peradventure the word here had no other Origin ; as their Ri- 
ver which comes from the Pepper-Bath, is perhaps no-.- 
other than our Tnymyn warm, which is alfo the Name of a River 
in Mongo mery (hire, Thofe that have STOCK added to their ■ 
Names, as G I TSCfU STOCK, iMLPEN STOCK, OCHSEN^- 
STOCK, &c. either ftiiJ are, or have been heretofore Woody ; and 
the fame may be faid of wALD (whence UNTFklFALD, BA-~ 
RlfNPVALD, &c ) which- the Gauls feem tp have pronouBC’d - 
Gaht, feeing that in fome Parts of South PFaUs y they flill ufe the * 
word in that Senfe 
As to the Alteration thefe Mountains have undergone ;that they-' 
^ are made more fleep one Age after another, is manifeft from the 
‘Account of the Inundations of t\\Q A fine Torrents. That moll: 
Learned and Indefatigable Naturalift Conradus Geftiems has long 
fince given ais a Particular Defeription of the Brcken Mountain - 
and I daily exped to fee fome Additional Obiervatiens tliereon, in 
the Ingenious Dr. of Lucern's Hiftory of the Figur’d 'Fof- 
idcsoi Switurland and the Countries adjoyuing. 
On the 25th of Aagufl'm the Year 1618, a confiderable part of a 2* • 
Mountain, call’d Conto among the Grijons, a fmall Rock on the 
lide Of it being undermin’d by Water, fell dowm on the Town 
©f Plurs, a very Rich and Populous Place ; wh ich together with an 
Inundation of the Maira at the fame time, fo entirely deffroy’d 
it, that there remain’d not fo much as the leafb Iign of there ha- 
\ ving ever been a Town, excepting one Pallace, belonging to the • 
i Family of Wertemat, {till extant; which tho’ a ftately Fabrick,.-, 
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