Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 edition. Excerpt: ...the Danube; for is. To tho' in Stri&nefs it rifes without theLi-' mits of Switzerland, yet it is but a few " Leagues diftant from Schaufhaufen. The ' /// is another River which has its Rife " neziBazil; and tho'the Source of the A-" dige be properly in the Country of Tirol, ' yet it is upon the Confines of the Grifons. " Thefe (being eleven in Number) are the " mod confiderable Rivers in Europe, and " which all take their Rife in this fmall " Country of Switzerland, befides which " there is fcarce a Valley which has not a " River running thro' it. And as this ex-' traordinary Number of Rivers, in pro-" portion to what we find in other Coun-' tries of the fame Extent, is brought as a " a convincing Argument of the natural " Height of the Country; foil will as natu-" rally fuggeft the Impofllbility there '-c ' Rain being the Author and Suppli, -.-" them." Fountains; to which he adds, Namfiaua experiment!! fides eft habenda, vapores qui iit To proceed with this ingenious Author; auras exhaltntur adnubes, & qui in plnviit ' The Lakes which are to be found in that demittuntur, nan tarn e mari originem ducunt, u Country are not to be omitted; of which quarn a terne Madere; atqtte hoc Pado in ' he remembers near thirty; fome whereof Uliginofis & Paiuftribus regionibas quails eft " arc lo confiderable, as to deferve the Hibernia Nimbi nonfuntfrequentes. entrain----.... A C JA L /! I-t 'f this I may add what Seneca, and others, amongft the ancient, as well as fome modern Philofophers, have afTerted of the Depths which Rain-Water finks into the Earth in any Place, efpecially on Hills, where it runs off with a much fwifter Current, than from flow declining Lands. Jam plttvite maxima non ultra dtcimum pedem i terram...
