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th^ S ^bterraneous Rivers washing awayf Earth continually , and wcakning theirr° u ndations, so by degrees causing them tosunder, subside, and tall in. That the Moun-a ins do daily diminish, and many of themJp ; that the Valleys are railed; that thej 1 rt s of the Sea are atterrated, no man caneny_ That these things mull needs in pro-e ‘ s of time have a very considerable and8 r eat effect, is as evident ; which what elseCatl it be, then that we have mentioned?.Moreover, towards this levelling of thefountains, and filling up of the Sea, the sireJ* 0 contributes its Mite. For the burning"vuntains or Vtdcanos, as for example Æt-k* and Vesuvius, vomit at times out of their^Hvels such prodigious quantities of Sand^ Alhes, and with that force, that they5r e by the Winds carried and dispersed ail^ er the Country , nay transported over, Ca s into foreign and remote Regions ; butet fell so copiously in the circumjacent places,3s to cover the Earth to a considerable thick-and not only so, but they also pour0r th Floods of melted Stones, Minerals and^tsier Materials, that run down as low as the^ ea > and fill up the Havens, as of old one^ a f Cata»a; and make Moles and Promon-°ties or Points, as in the last Eruptions both0 Ætna and Vesuvius ; the Tops of theseV 4 Mountains