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opposition against your Hypothesis Vfountains, though indeed / am more and modconfirm d in your Opinion of them , and the Usof the Mountains. Father Tachart in hiss’cond Voyage to Siam, fays , when he went usto the top of the Table Mountain at the Cap eot Good Hope, the Rocks and Shrubs wedperpetually dropping and feeding the Sprinsiand Rills below , there being generally Cloudhanging on the fides near the top. This COsi ant disi illation of Vapours from the Oceansthe many high Ridges of that great Promowtory i may peradventure be one cause of tKwonderful fertility and luxury of the S» lwhich produces more rate Plants and Anim^then any known Spot of Ground in the Word jthe Discovery whereof is owing to the Curiosty and Wisdom of the Dutch. The famefervat ion hath been frequently made by o# (English Merchants■ in the Madera and Cans 1 /Islands , (thefirst of which u near in theLatitude on the North of the /Equator ,the afore-mentioned Cape is in on the South),especially in their Journeys up to the Pike "Tcncrin, in which, at such and fuck height'they were always wet to the skin, bydroppings of the great Stones , yet no Rad 6ver head ; the fame I have felt in passing ^