Consequences of the Deluge, i q;

4> C / y uarte> ’ °f a>} l }0ur m ) with

*. t e drops, so that / was necessitated to wipe} em -off s 0 0 st eii ; and my Paper , on which Iwrote my Observations, would immediately hej f et with the Dew , that it would not bearf •’ ly which it may le supposed, how fasie Water gathers in those mighty high Ridges

ut now named. -‘At Jail he concludes:

I doubt not hut this Hypothesis is morer s a s°Mahle, than that of those who derive allD ings from the Rain waters, which yet are“ r petual, aud without diminution, even when

° f a ^ s f or a (p aCC °f time.

• * his may, for ought t as yet lee or know,e 2 good account of the Original ofsprings in thole fervid Regions, though evenhere, I doubt, but partial ; but in Europe ,

®hd the more temperate Countries, I believe1 € Vapours in this manner condensed, havelittle interest in the production of them,lough I will not wholly exclude them.

*or,

First, The Tops of the Alps above the°hntains of four of the greatest Rivers in^■urope, the Rhine, the Phase, the Danow ,a,J d the Po, are for about Six Months in the^ar constantly covered with Snow , to a§ re at thickness ; so that there are no Va-pors all that while that can touch thosefountains, and be by them condensed into

H 3 water j