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not only from the foresaid pits, but Iiketfifcat a thousand other Caves and Holes, spirt' .ing several fathoms high, from some perpefl*dicularly, from others obliquely, so tl#there is not a pleafanter fight then this; andin a short time fills the lake. A full descrip' ®tion and an account of all the Phœnomena o> ^this admirable Lake sce in Philosoph.fr ansatt- 1Numb. 191.p. 411. &c. So we fee water tmay be brought down from the Mountain* £and raised up naturally in strait Channel* Jwith that force, and to that height , as to 1exceed all the artificial jets in the World, ifnot in the altitude of the spout, yet in the Jbigness of the stream abundantly. *

This end and use of Mountains I find as £signed by Mr. Halley in his Discourse con-cerning the original of Springs and Rivers, 1in these words : This, if may allow final 1causes (and why may we not ? what needs ®this hesitancy and dubitacion in a thing that 1is clear seems to he the design of the Hilh 'that their ridges being placed through themidftof the Continents , might serve as it were A*lembicks to distil prejh water for the use of !Man and Beast, and their heights to give adescent to those streams to run gently like femany veins of the Macrocosm , to le the morebeneficial to the Creation,

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