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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 185, page id 797370323:0343
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equallr, over considerable Places of the
Clobe at once, and (o ron d be luckd
up in the Ground, or makce an universal
Pudale; xhrereas bychele Monntains, ther
are perpetually almost, (ac lealt a NighES)
pourins domn in lome particular Places.
and chere treasurine up, For a constant
SupplY co the Rivers. Anocher very con-
Siderable ule ot chese Hills, and Fminen-
ces, is the Determination of thele Rirers:
For tho there had been Rivers Withoue
Mouncains, (Wtich is harelly ponible) yet
in thac case che Rivers cond only trave
rum in a sraiohe L inc, it cher had run ac
all; Wrhrereas, by thele Eminences, plac d
up and dorn che Clobe, the Rivers make
innumerable beautiful carnings and wind.
ings, Whcreby chey enrich, Fatten, and
water the Soil ot lereral difterent Coun-
tries in one Coucle, makce the Transpor-
tations and Carriase over L ands more ca-
Ec and manaseable, and at last disem-
bogue in Teveral Moucho into thc Sea;
artiere, by che asictance of che Tides,
chey