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# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
# Folio 28, page id 859264114:0036
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the pressure ot the mater against that Rim Forel
the Taid Rim against che Plate in the midele chrec
times harder than if the pretture ot the mater lar
ouls on cheplate oEthe ralue, thelame mouldbe prel.
Sed agaim (C thC RIm.
T0. this Discourse oF an Artificial P’ountam l
thoushe it noc improper to add an ingenious Dil-
courle OFM. Fames Ponns OE Plimonth conceinins his
omn Obserrations and Opinion concernins natural
Fountains and Sorines.
P Arins non sained time, trom my ocher aro-
 B, cations, Phare dramn up thole obserrations.
P. told rou I. tiad made in my cravels, irhich had
contirmed in me cheopinion oE my Lord Bacon, thac
Founcains and Springs vere the Pereolation oF
the SCa; nOT (a5 vour CelE, MIT. Ray, 8C. d0 aNCNE)
Erom cherains descent into the larth, I. nOW repre.
Cenethem co rour consideration, rather as an ApolOgy
(becaule thes scem rational) to exeule, chan APgU-
ments to julcitie and arom che prelumption OF m;
dissent.
The ArH MaIl Be che Phaenomena, I obserred at
TBC de Mayo, irhrich liech in che Porrid Zone, about
chirceen degrees and 30 minutes, Norch From thc
Equator. leS about Six Leagues lone, and FOur
broad, che mind bloweth constancy Norch KaIE, OL
chereabout, and mithoutrains except threc meeks in
July, Wrhen ic hach many Bhoers; l here send vou a
Mtap OE che Iand, as exactly asIeould dea ic. 1
ras chere trro Voyages, and cach remained a FuIl
monch, thebestpart et irhich PEpent inhuncins, and
ransins che IPand; chererunneth chrough chemidale
Os ita Rorulet, OE very pure Water; IE catses ies rile
trom