which _per_ next. I am, _Sir_, _Your most humble Servant_, Marseilles, Aug. 22. 1700. J. Monro. _An accurate Description of the _Lake of Geneva_, not long since made by a Person that had visited it divers times in the pleasantest season of the Year; and communicated to the Publisher by one of his Parisian Correspondents: English'd as followeth._ You have reason, _Sir_, to demand of me an Account of the _Lake of Geneva_, which, in my opinion, about this Season of the Year (in _June_) is one of the most pleasant Places of the World. This is the Third time I have visited it, and I am, if I may say so, more charmed with it than the first. I shall say nothing of the _Alpes_, nor of mount _Jura_, which do environ it, which by this Lake as by a large Ditch, are separated from one another: For that would not give you a sufficiently fair _Idea_ of the Country. Be pleased therefore to represent unto your self a Croissant of Water, one extremity whereof is Eighteen Leagues distant from the other, and the Banks of which are gently raised to some heights, then to collines, and at length to stupendous Mountains; which yet are not so linked to one another but that they leave betwixt them interstices of Fifteen or Twenty Leagues prospects, checkered by Meadows, Corn-Fields, Orchards, Vines, Forrests of Fir-Trees, Snow lying on the sides of the Rocks. All these Objects, which at a distance are confounded, and seem to make but one, have near hand their several Beauties: So well is the Country intersected by Rivulets, which, after they have served to make Iron, Paper, &c.; run into the Lake, carrying with them very many Fountains. But leaving these Things, I shall now content my self to entertain your Curiosity by giving you a candid Relation of what I have there observed in the space of Four Months. * * * * * Although I have told you, that this Lake hath the figure of a _Croissant_, yet that point, where is _Geneva_, is somewhat longer and more extended than the other. This Croissant where 'tis largest, which is from _Morges_ to _Thonon_, is about Five good Leagues over. That which hinders from making an exact estimate of its Largeness in other places, is, that the Winds by driving the Water toward the Banks have made certain points, which advance far into the Lake, in such sort that when one happens to be opposite to the other, the Lake seems to be narrow: As may be observed in going from _Geneva_ to _Nion_, where it seems as if the _Pharus_ or watch Tower of _Prangin_, which is in _Suisse_, did almost touch _Savoy_; whereas yet one is a League distant from the other. And, what is remarkable, is, that at the coming out of this Streight, the Lake hath there almost its greatest breadth and depth.