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 Walenstat, the Lake of Isee, the Lake of Murat, or the Lake of Garda, In some places this Lake of Geneva is eight miles broad, and well nigh fifty miles long. I have read of a stranger, who travelling that way alone in Winter, when the Lake was all frozen over and covered with Snow, took the Lake for a large plain, and rid upon it eight, or ten miles to the Town. Where lighting at his Inn, and commending the fine plain over which he had ridden, was given to understand, that he had ridden, if not in the Air, at least fiften Fathom above ground, at which, the poor man reflecting upon the danger he had been in, fell down dead with the conceit of it. Thus we are troubled not onely at evils to come but at evils past, and are never so near the danger of death as when we are newly past it. No animal but man, hath this folly.

Leaving then, as I said, the Lake, I came soon after, to Lausanna in Swisserland, belonging to the Canton of Berne. Here I saw an ancient Church of a noble structure, and