Consequences of the Deluge. top

| n a Thunder shower; and on the other,cal-l « Dolaz, in a smart and continuing Rain:tf I lat * w *h not deny, but in Summer time'[• c e : a P° Ur s may contribute somewhat to the

ll erf’' 3S * h aVe e ^ ew ^ icre intimated;

I, .^uds almost continually hanging upon theK t ^ le Mountains, and the Sun having

e ^ere but little power.l * tl• ^ now ^ lat * am ^i^ouriing of these

e . v 1!l ?S s ) give me leave to set down an Obser-

’ „ atl °n I made in the last great Frost, the

i yarpeft that was ever known in the memo-

> g ok Man, which I had before met with in

j' . °°hs, but did not give firm credit to, that

f hat notwithstanding the violence of ther r °st> all the Springs about us,brake out and*, ^ more plentifully than usually they did at

• °ther time: which I knew not what to/rPuteto, unless perchance the close stop-11 • * n § the Pores of the Earth , and keeping

’f t t ^ at P art > which at other times was wontJ th Va P° u r away ; which Account, I neithery en could, nor can yet fully acquiesce in.

^ I tliis I will here add an Abstract of a5 > ette r written by my honoured Friend Dr.jj ftobhsoH.