po Consequences of the Deluge*

The little Brook that runs near my Dwel'ing, and hath its Head or Source not abovefour or five Miles off, whore there is no eX'traordinary eruption of water , all along ibCourse receives small Rivulets on both fides? (winch though they make a considerable,Stream at five natiles distance from the Foe' 1 'tain-head, yet singly are to small, that theymay very well be conceived to drain doW 11from the higher Grounds that lye aboutthem. And taking the whole together, #is a very considerable length and breadth otLand, that cfontributes to the maintenanceof this little River. So that it Way easily bebelieved, that all its water owes its originalto Rain : Especially if ; it be considered fuf'ther, that in Winter-time after the Rains ar 6fallen, the Ground sated, and the Ditch#’ >full, the Stream of this River during the,Wliole Winter following, is for the moH |part, unless in Frosts, double of what it wa s jirf* Summer. Which Excess can proceed |from nothing but Rain and Mists ;least it would be rashness to assign any jther Cause, when there is so obvious ar>a |manifest an one. Moreover, that Rain a>' ifords no small quantity of water, is clear al'so from great Floods, wherein it might b eproved, that in few days there descentmore water than would supply the ordinary

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