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Consequences of the Deluge.

be as far above my head, as they do here &England; and a great height they must 1^'for the Snow to gather into lo great flakes?and to continue lo long tailing; nay, it maybe three times so long. Moreover, we tie,that the highest Pikes and Summits of thoseMountains are covered with Snow. And 1am assured, that all the Winter long at in*tervals , it Snows upon the Tops of tb eAlps.

2 . In the Spring time, when the Sno^dislolves, some of these Rivers that flow'down from the Alpine Mountains, run witl Ja full stream, and overflow their Banks , if 1clear Sun-fliine weather, though no Rail 1falls, as I my self can witness; and there-fore I presume, that all the rest do lo too, a§the Inabitants affirmed. But in the Summedtime after the Snow hath been some tim emelted, their Streams decay again, notwith*standing any Vapours condensed upon then 1 ?proportionable to the Droughts; neither as 6there any Floods, but upon tails of Rain.

3 . That the Snow dissolved and soakinginto the Earth, is the Original of the Alpi* eSprings j a probable Argument may be t 3 'ken from the colour of the Water oftho^Rivers which descend from the Alps , at leaston this Northern side, which I observed t0be of a Sea-green, even to a great distant