¶ Of Lakes.
LAkes ar made by the meting together of many ryuers,* 1.1 brookes & springs into one deepe valley. Whereof some are so
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LAkes ar made by the meting together of many ryuers,* 1.1 brookes & springs into one deepe valley. Whereof some are so
great, that they haue the name of seas, as ye great lake called Hircane, or Caspiā sea. These lakes sometymes vnlade thē¦selues into the sea, by small riuers, som¦tymes by passages vnder the earth.
The cause of the swiftnes of ryuers, is double, for they are swyfte either for the great aboundaunce of waters, or els because they runne downe from an hylly place, as the ryuer Rhene falleth downe from the toppe of wonderfull hyghe hylles.
Lakes.