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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 268, page id 797370323:0426
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OFLand Animals, and that because ot the
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point, in the Came diltance, comine
chrough Water. In those Animals chatsa-
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