Dr Burnets Travels Or Letters Containing An Account of What Seemed Most Rema
Dr Burnets Travels Or Letters Containing An Account of What Seemed Most Rema
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
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Cn th:ic fc was Torty years pldj and . Was fo very ftrong" thacj, one could hardUv drink above a fpoonful, and k\, tailed high qf Spicery, ^tho fhe afiurcd me chcre was not one grain of Spice m it, nor of any other niixcurc whatloever. Thus the feeat that is in this Wine, becomes a fire and difti's it felf, rhrowirg up the more fpirituous parts of it to the top of the I4o^s-Hcad; Both here and in the Grifons the meat is very juycyg the Fowl is Excellent, their R. Oots and Herbs very Tcaftful, b...ut the fifli of iheit Lakes is beyond any ehing lever faw. They live in a great fimplicity a* to their habit and furniture, but they have plenty pr, aJl things, and are cxtream Rich, the Family' Tv'liere we were fo Nobly Entertained is believed tei lYuve. About two hundred thoufand Crowns : here rhe Italian cuftom of one only of a Family that iV-Iarries takes plac^ generally. There is a fore of I^ts of Stone that is u fed not only in all theKitchins- feete, butalmoiiall Lcmbardy over, called Lavegr, lEhe Stone feels oyly and fcaiy, fo that a fcale fticks^ to ones Finger that touches it, and is f( mcwhat cF the nature of a tlate, there are but three Mines of" 5t known in thefc parrs, one near Chavennes, another ip the Vahelins^ and the third in the Grifutif, but ihefiriH^ much the beft, they generally cut it in the Mia^ round-, ' of about a foot "and a half Dianieicr, ;^nd abouc afoot ard a quarter thick, and they woik- ir in a Mill, where the Chiz2els that cut the Stprie are driven abouc by a Whe.
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