1058

The Alps.

That there are springs which suddenly break forth in earthquakes or other convulsions and suddenly fail; and this happened in a mountain in Savoy where certain forests sank in and left a very deep gap, and about four miles from here the earth opened itself like a gulf in the mountain, and threw out a sudden and immense flood of water which scoured the whole of a little valley of the tilled soil, vineyards and houses, and did the greatest mischief, wherever it overflowed.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XVII: Topographical Notes.
. . .
1038,
1039,
1040,
1041,
1042,
1043,
1044,
1045,
1046,
1047,
1048,
1049,
1050,
1051,
1052,
1053,
1054
Alessandria in Piedmont.
1055,
1056
The Alps.
1057,
1058,
1059,
1060,
1061,
1062
The Appenins.
1063,
1064,
1065,
1066,
1067,
1068,
1069,
1070,
1071,
1072,
1073,
1074,
1075,
1076,
1077,
1078
. . .