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# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
# Folio 29, page id 859264114:0039
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Erom the bocom oEtro FTills, hichlie onthe North
Fastend; Theltream at the place marked D, is abOuE
Fourteen foor ide and tro decp; ocher thon rhich
there is no Freth vrater on the rhole IMand, exCCPE
irtrat our people dig out oE the Cand betreen the
Occan and the CaIEFond.
The Caid Pond is in a laroe Bar, at the Wesc Side
oF theiMand, irhich hath from onc point eo another
abarkoF Sand; about tro or three fooc abore atei,
corering the Bar like a Pring to aBor, the Caid bank
in the Flemistr Road is about r50 foor wide, at the
Fnplism Road it is as broad again; there is nerer any
senlible cbbins or Rorine OF the Sea, ouly ac FuII
MOonS, Or a day betore. Ic rileth in high BillOns,
Wrhich break over the Bank, at the Norck end oF the
Pond, Wrhere it is lorest: By iwhich means che Pond
is replenisted rith mater, Which condenseth into
Salt in tro dars.
The Sand diridinq the Caid Pond and che Sea is
verr tinc and loole. Nor becaule the betore-men-
tioned Rirulet disembognes Car From the Roads at an
inconrenient place For Boats, therare constraincd t0
dig WVelIS, in che midt of che bank oF Sand, be-
tircen the Pickle oF che (aIE Pond and the Sea,
the manmex ThUS: They ArsE diss a Dic abouc cighC
ooc decp, and cherein lay trro Horheads, che
one on the topoEthe other, the head out os boch lave
the lorvermost oF the decpelt; the sides oE boch
arc. al(0 FuIl oF Gimlet holes, and the Cand laid
close to them: Atier erreney tour hours they have
three or Four Foocof very dlean mater in chem, irhich
beins dipped out, vou plainty sec EHC nEI WaTCE
Prain senely chroustr chole holes in che Ades OF the
Cosk: REter Wrhieh, in a dass cime, one man actend.
ins ic, may deam abouc ten Hloheads or more oF ma-
cer, a litele caltins oE Sale, noc (o mueh but chac it is
drintcable, and verr Ec to boyl meat in, and is uled
by chose chat come chere 1o load C attle, For cheir
COmmOn