Consequences of the Deluge.

Anfw. This indeed , if it were true,would much enervate, nay, quite overthrotfour Opinion: And therefore we must forti-fie this Point, and effectually demonstratebeyond all possibility of denial or contra*diction, That Rain-water doth sink down,and make its way into the Earth, l do not jfay Ten, or Twenty, nor Forty, but an Hun-dred, nay , Two or three hundred Foot otmore.

First then, in Pool-hole in the Peak ofJDarlyfbireyhcre are in some places constantdroppings and destinations of water from theRoof: under each of which (to note that bythe by) rises up a Stone Pillar, the waterprecipitating some of those stony Particles,which it had washed ofFthe Rocks in pallingthrough their Chinks. These ' droppingscontinue all the Summer long. Now itseems clear to me, that the Rain-water ma-king its way through the Veins and Chinksof the Rocks above it, and yet but slowly,by reason of the thickness of the Mountain,and straitness of the Passages , supplies thatdropping all the year round ; at least, this ismuch more rational than any different Ht jpothejis. If the water distills down faster i 11Winter time and wet Weather, than it dothin Summer (which I forgot to ask) the Ex-periment would infallibly prove our Affer-

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