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A Journey from Vienna into Styria, Carinthia, Carniola,Friuli; 81
The Ground under the Lake is very unequal, and the water not near
of the same depth, but in home places four foot, and then suddenly again
twenty yards deep: and because the Fisii frequent the Valleys or deep-
er places, more than the Hills or eminent parts, the Fiihermen who
know the place wet and dry, have given unto seven of these Valleys
peculiar names, which in the Sclavonian, the Language of that Coun¬
try, are these,
Vodands.
Re/betu. ...
Sitarza.
Ribifbkiama.
Naknifhu.
Le-vijbe.
KotteL
I passed over the sive firfl: mentioned Valleys, and went to a noted
Stone called the Fishers Stone, by the appearance whereof they cart
conjecture how soon the water will descend, and by an Hill, which
when the water is high becomes a pleasant Issand, and then return¬
ed.
They can give no account that this Lake hath failed any year to
descend and arise again, or have any tradition how long this property
of the Lake hath been obsen ed. Some Lakes have been made by
Earth-qtiakes,but it is more probable that this hath been from all Anti-
quity, and according to the Lest conjectures,this is the Luge a Pains of
Strabo, and therefore more strange that the Ancients are silent in this
remarkable account.
The nearest Sea unto this Lake is the Sinus Lergeflinus, and Sinus
Flanaticus, the Guls of Lriefte, and the Gulf of Qgevero. And not ma-
ny miles from hence are the Heads of divers confiderable Rivers, as
that os Labach, the Corcoras of Gurk, the Colapis or Culp, which run
into the Saws. The Vipao or amnts srigdus which runs into Ly~
sonsoty Goritia,zw\ divers more,but whither these Rivers arise where
the Lake falls/ I could not learn.
The Ground not far from this Lake is very hollow and full of Ca-
verns, and I observed many Caverns and deep holes in other parts os
Camiola somewhat like unto Elden hole in Darby/bire, and I was in-
formed by the moil considerable persons at Vircbnitz that the Prince
of Eckenberg had the curiosity to go into one of them, and came out
again upon the side of an Hill.
I was upon consideration whether I should go from hence unto Ter-
geftum now Triefle, a Port-Town of the Emperor’s in the Adriatic^
Sea, and then by Ship to Venice, but having been in many Mines be-
fore I had a desirc also to see the famous Quick-filver Mine at Idria in
the County of Goritia ; and parting from Zirchnitz I pasled by Lovecq^
and travelled over Mountainous parts till I came to Idria, which isen-
compassed with Hills on all sidcs, and a River of the same name runs
by it, which although Leandro Alberti terms fuperbiffimofume d Idria.,
yet I found it small and shallow at the time when I was there, upon,
plentiful rains how soe ver it proves suflicient to convey down the Firr-
trees, and other wood required in the building of the Mines, and also
M for
The Ground under the Lake is very unequal, and the water not near
of the same depth, but in home places four foot, and then suddenly again
twenty yards deep: and because the Fisii frequent the Valleys or deep-
er places, more than the Hills or eminent parts, the Fiihermen who
know the place wet and dry, have given unto seven of these Valleys
peculiar names, which in the Sclavonian, the Language of that Coun¬
try, are these,
Vodands.
Re/betu. ...
Sitarza.
Ribifbkiama.
Naknifhu.
Le-vijbe.
KotteL
I passed over the sive firfl: mentioned Valleys, and went to a noted
Stone called the Fishers Stone, by the appearance whereof they cart
conjecture how soon the water will descend, and by an Hill, which
when the water is high becomes a pleasant Issand, and then return¬
ed.
They can give no account that this Lake hath failed any year to
descend and arise again, or have any tradition how long this property
of the Lake hath been obsen ed. Some Lakes have been made by
Earth-qtiakes,but it is more probable that this hath been from all Anti-
quity, and according to the Lest conjectures,this is the Luge a Pains of
Strabo, and therefore more strange that the Ancients are silent in this
remarkable account.
The nearest Sea unto this Lake is the Sinus Lergeflinus, and Sinus
Flanaticus, the Guls of Lriefte, and the Gulf of Qgevero. And not ma-
ny miles from hence are the Heads of divers confiderable Rivers, as
that os Labach, the Corcoras of Gurk, the Colapis or Culp, which run
into the Saws. The Vipao or amnts srigdus which runs into Ly~
sonsoty Goritia,zw\ divers more,but whither these Rivers arise where
the Lake falls/ I could not learn.
The Ground not far from this Lake is very hollow and full of Ca-
verns, and I observed many Caverns and deep holes in other parts os
Camiola somewhat like unto Elden hole in Darby/bire, and I was in-
formed by the moil considerable persons at Vircbnitz that the Prince
of Eckenberg had the curiosity to go into one of them, and came out
again upon the side of an Hill.
I was upon consideration whether I should go from hence unto Ter-
geftum now Triefle, a Port-Town of the Emperor’s in the Adriatic^
Sea, and then by Ship to Venice, but having been in many Mines be-
fore I had a desirc also to see the famous Quick-filver Mine at Idria in
the County of Goritia ; and parting from Zirchnitz I pasled by Lovecq^
and travelled over Mountainous parts till I came to Idria, which isen-
compassed with Hills on all sidcs, and a River of the same name runs
by it, which although Leandro Alberti terms fuperbiffimofume d Idria.,
yet I found it small and shallow at the time when I was there, upon,
plentiful rains how soe ver it proves suflicient to convey down the Firr-
trees, and other wood required in the building of the Mines, and also
M for