Consequences of the, Deluge

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Spaw u altered in its taste , ande Msned in its operation - ivhereas a rainy day°f * Wo will not Jenstlly hurt it. And now (

k transcribing out ot this Author, give meWe to add an Observation or two in con-’ r,n ation ot Rains, being the Original otpriogs. The first is (pag. 97 ) this ;

England, inthe years 1654, 55. and^ Je » oar Climate was drier than ever it hade£> * mentioned to be in any Stories , Jo as wead Vef y if tt i e Hain in Summer , or Snow insinter, moil of oar Springs were dried up ,os in the memory of the eldest Men li-^*5 had never wanted water, bat were of1 ,0 J e Springs ive call Fontes perennes, or atwere esteemed so. He instances also a

3r alle[ Story out ot Hey lid a Geography , inJ 1 e Description of Cyprus , where the AurJ° r relates; that in the days <?/ C^qstantinest Great, there was anexceeding long,dr oughtff re , Jo as in J hirty fix years they had mff**, insomuch as all the Springs and tor-ststf’ or Rivers , were dried up ; Jo that thehabitants were forced to for Jake the Island,‘’fid to seek for new Habitations for Want of* te Jh water. “ The