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^ tream for a good part of Summer. Now° compare great things with (mall; I have? en many ot the biggest Rivers in Europe tI E>anow } Rhine y Rhosne and Po ; and whenconsider the length of their Courses , theMultitude of considerable Rivers and BrooksV e y receive; and all these from their firstri lc, made up by degrees of little Rivuletsjind Gills, like my neighbouring Brook; theh y ge Mountains and vast extent of higherj rounds they drain. To me it seems (andhave seen all their Streams near their Out-, ets > except the Danom , and it’s after fourkindred Miles descent) that they do nothear any greater proportion to the Rivers andRivulets they receive , and the immensejftacts of Land that feed them, than myRrook dotli to its smalls Rills and compass ofGround.

But in this, I confess, I do not descend tome nicenefs of Measuring and Calculation,fatisfie my self with rude Conjectures ,^king my Measures, as the Cestriam fay,bySafc of the Eye.

h will here be objected , That the Rainne i>er finks above ten Foot deep at most into*j e Earth , and therefore cannot supply the" firings.