Consequences of the Deluge.

a nd the like happened to the Stream that crofL 3 ^ Je Road-way between Sittingburn and^anterbury at Olpring near Feverfham ,:ic ■> at other times ran with a plentiful Cur-fff but then wholly failed. So we see thatIS not infrequent for new Springs to breakut in wet years ; and for old ones to fail inS r eat Droughts. And Stralo in his first Bookut of Xanthus theLydian tells us,That in theune of Artaxerxes there was so great a, rou ght, that Rivers, and Lakes, and Wells‘ Water failed, and were dried up.

. * cannot here also forbear to add, the pro-J&le account he [ Dr. Witty ] gives of thesupply of the Spring-well on the Castie-hill^ Scarborough; at which, I confess , I wasIo mewhat puzzled. This Well, faith he, though** be upon the top of the Rock , not many yardsf e Pt and also upon the edge of the Cliff, isfab ties supplied by secret Channels within. e Ground, that convey the Rain and Showersl Y° it , being placed on a dependent part off e Rock, near unto which there are also Cel-ats under an old ruinated Chap pel,which aftera & r eat Rain are fall of Water , but are driedU P in a long Drought.

P As-for what is laid concerning the River°bgas pouring out so much water into theflpian Sea, as in a years time would makeP u mass of water equal to the Globe of

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