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It. 2. f. 3S. was yet but aSummer-boufe to a Pallacc they had therein.. CaJ^cU 
another Town feated-atthe Bottom of two Moilntains above mea- 
‘ , tioned, <tJMaloya and Septmer-, was half buried in the Ruins of 
one of them in the Year 1673 *, an immenfe quantity of Blue 
Clay being born down by a great Storm of Rain in Jfdy^ which 
had been let at Liberty before, by the melting of the Snow in 
April. ' • 
The RcepellHillhe afeended, and that which gave Irim more fa- 
' * ' tiguc than ail the reft, was FLIMSERBERG^ or (as the Grifons 
call iX.) Mount Segnes] but the moll dangerous way was the 
TV AND ZVR pfAND, almoft at the Bottom of TSCBEJN- 
GEL Mountain. This Paflage wants not for Length and Tediouf. 
nefs 3 but is moreover fo exceeding narrow, that in fome Places 
, Tis fcarce three Inches over 5 and the Rock under it, in many 
Places bare and almoft as fteep as a Wall, of the Depth of fome 
Hundreds of Feet. Above it is another continued Wall of Rock 3 
inforauch that the Security of the PalTengers, muft depend chiefly 
on their faftning on the Bulhes or Trees growing out of the Chinks 
or Fiflures of the Rock above them. Such as are in the leaft fiib- 
jed to Dizxinefs are, to avoid fuch danger, conducted a great 
. way about. 
As to the Caves of thefe Mountains, it Ihould feem they either 
are not very numerous, or elfe fo common that he fcarce thought 
them worth the mentioning, as affording little or nothing re- 
markable. Thefe they only call LOCH^S [^or Holes'} whereof 
lu I. f, 6, mentions are GEISSLOCH and BRVDERLOC with 
the SJLBSRLOCH and GOLDTLoCH on the fteep Mountain of 
It. 2. t. 46. Diathelm *, and which is moft worth notice. Si:. MARTIN'S 
P.12*. LOCH, or rather (as fome probably conjediircj AlATtHIS- 
XOC’/:^ohthe Top of FLIMSERBERG., through which the Inha* 
' bitants of the Town of ELM fee the Sun yearly on St. Matthew i 
Day, as through an Optick Tube ; concerning which he refers us 
to IVaffneFs Ht(t. Nat. Curiofa Helvetia He mentions an Delian 
Cave at B L At LIS BERG near WESEN'^ but the moft remarka- 
ble in that kind are thofe at Kiavenna, or (as the Germans call itj 
CLEF FEN., amongft which the Inhabitants build thofe pleafant 
* ’ Cellars, call’d Grotti’^ where in the Summer Time, on account of 
the continual motion of the Air, the Wine is fo e.xceeding cold, 
* Wagn. H.N. Helv. 
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