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3-4 ETIROPEAM LARES. ' 1^,) 
from the former of tliese places to Constance ^ 
ore Upper Lake, and that from Constance 
Lower Lake. 
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The Lake of Geneva resembles the sea, . ^ 
colour of its water, tire storms which are i'"-* 
the ravages it makes on its banks. ^ 
OTmes from the coasts it washes, and has in • 
Itrecaj; 
wares auiu uic euusiD .. uu...-,., — rO' 
■ike the flowing and ebbing of the tide, jly 
melting of the snows, which fall more, cop* 
noon than at other times of the day. It is 
side looking towarus . 
half- moon, its convex 
having on tliiit side 
a lenglh of forty 
tte 
ile«’ 
towards Savoy iis length does not exceed 
of such a depth as to be navigable for larger 
commonly secti in rivers, 
discharges itseli iiitr) it with such rapidity 
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Near Villeneiive, l.jtlijii 
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tance of half a league, the river watei , " jcli i* r 
continues unraixed with that of the lake, ' 
iirly cle,ar. • , , r Milan, 1 f<i 
Laoo Macioioke, in the Duchy of rVti^j 
extraordinary lake, sixty miles in *, in 
general breadth, with a depth of eight fathoi^j 
It is surrounded on every side with hills cor f 
yards; and along its banks are (-hi''’ - ‘L 
walks arched witJi vine branches. lhi» / H'i 
pect is heightened bv several large natural ^ pP 
At the part where It 
celebrated islands (.oifL#', 
from the mountains 
bay, appear the two 
bay, appear me two ceieLuaitu '"“" .ppii''''' ‘kv 
Bella, and Isola Madre, which have 
two pyramids of confectionary, adorned ^ei' t rf 
and Wers. At one extremity ot the b. [,( X 
Bella, arc ten terraces, the perpendicular 
taken coilectivelvj is more than two hun*- 
level of the water of the lake 
These 
level ot me water or me lanc. i,,*.— 
pt'oportionably in their circuit as they . ^ flo* ’jiily 
the hill, where an oblong area, payed j(ii5 
surrounded with a ballustrade, aftbrds a ^^jiicKirT 
prosiject. Isola Madre has seven terraces, 
nut sloping, and at a considerable distanc 
Oil which °account it appears to be lower i fij i fc 
although the terraces have been planned o jj 
Nature was, perhaps, never so success 
