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Consequences of the Deluge.

where it happens , hut often flow more pletf*'fully. Lib. De incendiis Ætnæ.

What Mr. Halley faith of Springs, so athey are perpetual and without diminutio^.even when no Rain falls for a long spacetime. If he understands it generally of fSprings, I add, that are accounted qui^ones too, I deny his assertion : that ib$there may be of that nature,! grant: a r<2'son whereof may be given , viz. that th e .Out-let is too small to empty the waterall the Veins and Earth that lye above it id*Jong time. In our Native Country of £*$,land there are living and lasting Springssing at the feet of our small Hills and Wlocks, to which I am sore the Vapours co#tribute very little ; which is so obvious to^jvery man, that I think 1 need not spe^time to prove it.

Yet must I not dislemhle or deny, that ^

the Summer time the Vapours do alcend, ° ! -

are carried up in that form by the sides

the Mountains to their highest tops, and f

bove them; for there falls no Snow there 'f

the heat of Summer; and that which ^

there, is for the most part dissolved. W*

that Rain falls plentifully there , I my

can witness; having been on the two high e |

Tops of the Mount Jura, (which keeps tJ Jl i

Snow all Winter) on the one called Thud 1

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