and Creation.

^ r ® ut some may fay,Granting there be somet- so and benefit of moderate Hills and Ri-t Jngsj what necessity is there of such ex-it tended Ridges of vast and towring Moun-ts tains, hiding their Heads among the Clouds,y St' dewing for Altitude to contend with the)t hies? I answer there is very great use ofI ssiem for repelling the Vapours exhaled by:( ssie Sun-beams in the hot Regions, and hin-is eri n g their Evagations Northward , as we\s have already shewn, and shall not repeat,o * Might add hereto,

if 8. Those long Series and Chains osMoun-C ta >ns are of great use for Boundaries andLimits to the Territories of Princes or Com-* tnonwealths, to secure them on those parts- from sudden Incursions of Enemies. As fordie rudeness and confusion of Mountains,/ their cragged and broken Rocks and Cliffs,s atl d whatever other Disorder there may bet ^ong them, it may be accounted for,fromt ^ manner of their first Generation, and■ l h°se other mutations they have been since< ^noxious to, by Earthquakes, Eruptions off p*^ c Ws, foundering and falling in of their1 x r °ps and Foundations, and by time andi . 1 Gather too, by which not only the Earth^ Cashed away , or blown off from the/- ,° n cs,but the very Stones and Rocks them-e corroded and distolved, as might ea-sily

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