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Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby
(1673)
[Kircher appendix] Chap. V. Of wonderful lakes, rivers, and springs., p. 407
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AItos into an Alexander, holding a City in obe Hand, and a River in the o hut the meer work of Nature much affifted by Fancy. They report ofthe Mountain Taipkin the Province of Xenfi, much celi ted by the Oreofcopifts or Mountain'.Diviners, that a Drum being beate it raifeth fuddenly Thunder, Lightning, and great. Tempefts ; therefo there a flri& Law and fevere Punifhments provided, for whoever is four offend in this kind. The Oreologifts relate, thatthere is a Mountain in the Province Uq which is fo tenacious of its own Right, that if any one hath felonioufly t any of its Wood, Fruit, or the like, he f ball never be able to depart th, being perpetually included as ina Labyrinth, but he that religioufly abfl h, may go thence without trouble. But we reckon this amongft the F, of the D.onz.i. There alfo are olian, or windyMountains, fuch as in Europe'; for ij PrOvince of u u is a Morn i l'd an , from which (as M'artinih lates, inthe Spring and Autumn notthe leaft Beath appears-;but fron hollow Caverns in Summer afliduousBlafis and continual Blowings iffne. " ..A P . .. and -riz . I Nitrous Spirits, andi h Wrfion of 6hi6Meta, der; for they report, that in a fair Houfe there In the MountainTalm oi nhd rvc ef wis "e ob i il 4 r Thert'sur $itio the N o i 4npj'ovisLce of 9' Erthkey rqtfra fdio Ude4 idnvohti you hPf f iefeafyheva Iog anke noelikeI Skis bing *4jiuled,,4ifimogues vi~4ent Showi InheProhiof h~nn s the Lake cati'd Geographers, anld f frh intheir Maps; ciic relate, That QLut'o the. Ruine of a great popui Earthquake, (4fter whioLe dreadfuil devoration tf to the Prfpc&t of this pkofantc Lake) none ibut of Wood efcap'd. This Lake is call'd alfo Tbe S appc arng on e ithearface-like beamy Stars. C H A P. Po7 Z , Lak-;s of th; Qktfesw, Mc thei-O Thcpq is; xLake in the. JxQvi-ncr,'of E, r",mmtar - th,- Wat-P.r kA;nv,-vpr-v .,d
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