Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of a Lake. chap. 12.

A Lake is receiuing of priuy waters, in the which water is taken & helde, and is not medled with waues, nor eb∣bing nor flowing, as Isidore sayth li. 13. And Greekes call a Lake Limum, that is a ponde: for wells fall into Riuers: and riuers runne into the sea, and a lake standely in a place and floweth not, and therefore is called Lacus, as it were a place of water as Isidore sayth: for the water that he taketh by springing or by running thereto, passeth not out thereof into other places. Fish of such a lake as Constantine sayth, is not so good as ri∣uer fish: for by his wose and slime hée maketh fish that breedeth therein, smell of slime, and fish of the lake breedeth su∣perfluitie of hearbes and grasse, & nou∣risheth frogges and many wormes.

Running water commeth into lakes, & maketh their water more fresh, and kee∣peth them from corruption, but ofte by too great comming of water in, lakes and ponds be broke, and all that hath bene long time therein nourished is sodainly destroyed. And lake water is more thick than riuer water, and worse to drinke: for such drinke oft taken, gendreth and bréedeth many euills in the body, as it is said before in li. 5. of drinke. And lake water taketh diuers vertues of place & ground where it is gathered, as Isidore sheweth ensample li. 13. ca. 3. of diuersitie of waters, and sayth: That in Aethio∣pia is a lake, wherein if a body be wa∣shed, he shineth as though he were an∣noynted with oyle. Also in Affrica is a lake that maketh good voyce, and able to sing. Also in Italia is a lake, that noy∣eth greatly them that drinke thereof.

Also in the waters Reatins, hoofes and cl••••s of beasts be made hard, as it is said. And in the lake that is called Affalti∣des, a lake of Iurie, nothing may sinke, that hath lyfe and soule. Also euen there is a pond, in the which nothing fleeteth, but sinketh and is drowned. Also in Concidie is a lake, that is three a daye bitter, and as ofte fresh and sweete. All this Isid. telleth in the foresayd booke, & all this and other such diuersitie of pit water and lake water commeth of di∣uers qualitie of veynes of the earth and ground, by the which such water passeth, or els of kinde and disposition of the ground, where such water is gathered.