ABSTRACT
THE people, therefore, distressed by so many evils, not wishing to be weighed down by the public and private inconveniences of a lengthy siege and suffer the further irksomeness of even greater miseries, would fly into an uncontrollable fit of insane fury and block the valleys on every side with turves, sand, earth, and rocks, piled together in masses during a single drive, and then open up lakes, rivers, gushing springs, and the never-failing water-courses which are to be found everywhere because of the melting snows, and each would in this fashion put an end to his adversity, tribulation, and suffering, after which he could go back to his own property.
