Consequences of the Deluge)

* n con fi riT >ation of this Argument,bertus Magnus ( as I find him quoted inr * Wittie's Scarborough Spaw ) tells us, That. ^ ot torn of a solid Rock one hundred andj t f>% ^ at ^ oms deepy he fan? drops of waterWilling Jr om it in a rainy season.

Secondly, It is well known, and attested? me by the People at Buxton when I washere, that out of the mouth of the (ameL°°shole t after great and long continuingfhjms, a great stream of water did usuallyniue forth. And I am sure it must make its^ a y through a good thickness of Earth orst°cks, before it could come in there.

Thirdly, What becomes of all the watermat falls on Newmarket-Heath and GogmagogHills, I presume also Salisbury-?lain , andl he like Spungy Grounds all Winter long,^fierc we fee very little run off any way >* must needs sink into the Ground moreman Ten Foot deep.

fourthly , Many Wells, whole Springsv e at least Twenty Foot deep, we find byexperience, do often fail in great Droughtsltl Summer time.

fifthly, In Coal Delfs and other Mines, inWet Weather the Miners are many timesmown’d out, (as they phrase it) though no^atcr runs down into the Mouths of theirmrs or Shafts. Nay, Dr. Wittie tells us in

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