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wholly rocky, should anfwerably decrease'and that they do so,is evident in FxperteN 'For, as I have elsewhere noted, I have heinformed by a Gentleman of good Creel,that whereas the Steeple of Cratch in 1Peak of Derbyshire , in the memory ofold Men then living [1671.] could noth aVbeen seen from a certain Hill lying betw e j-Hopton and Wirksworth, now not only ^Steeple, but a great part of the Body of y 1 .Church may from thence be seen ,*comes to pass by the sinking of a Hilltween the Church and the place of vie"' •a parallel example whereto the learned W’Plot gives us, in a Hill between Silberwand Hajleby in Northamptonshire , Hill. FyStaffordp. 113. And thus will they cos"nue to do so long as there falls any Rai^jand as they retain any declivity, that is, tl ‘they be levelled with the Plains.

In confirmation of this Particular, Ireceived from my ingenious Friend Mr. ^tvarcl Lloyd, tome notable Observations 0his own making concerning the Mountsol Wales ; which uo demonstrate that fonly the looser and the lighter parts ofMountains, as Earth, Sand, Gravel,small Stones, may be washed down by yBains : but the most solid and bulky R° c j^themselves, by the violent descent of

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