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Consequences of the Deluge.

Tropicks (where the Exhalations from the Sisare most plentiful', most rariffd, and R at!tscarce ) than in the Temperate and FrigidoitdCwhere it rains and shows generally on thVertices of the Mountains ) yet even in odEuropean Climates I have often obfervd t™ \-Firs, Pines, and other Vegetal les near th ( jSummits of the Alps and Appennines, to dr ofand run with water, when it did not rain i1 'love ; some Trees more than others, accord'ing to the denfity and fmoothnest of th? 11 ’.Leaves and Superficies, whereby they stopcondense the Vapours more or lest. The Bea^of the Sun having little force on the high part*of Mountains, the interrupted Vapours rrttf.continually moisten them, and (as in the he&of an Alembick ) condense and trickle doivK >so that we owe part of our Rain, Springs,vers, and Conveniemies of Life , to the opt'ration of Distillation and Circulation by $Sun, the Sea, and the Hills, without even dlast of which, the Earth would scarce be haBtable . This present year in Kent they huf

had no Rain fince March last ; thereforeof their Springs are dry at this very df’as I am asturd from good Hands. Ifhigh spouting of water even to three ^thorns perpendicular out of innumerable ho"on the Lake Zirknitz in Carniola ast 1Rains on the adjacent Hills , exceeds V

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