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# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
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common drinke. I hare in the Mlap placed the sion
Orhere our Well masmade.
The next obserrations, pertinent to this subject I
made at the IPand Lipari, Dear Sicily, aBOUE AIXTCCM
Leagues From Messina; it isfamous tor thebest Rai
Tins in the Mediterranean; there is on it a large Ca-
CelC a (mall Fomn, many Vincrards, and about one
hundred Pamilies, belides lome Reliciose Ijudge it
Wants a AEh parE oF thebigness OFthe IDC de Mavo,
it ismostly very high Land, especially onc Mountain
On hich stands a Watch Forer, Whencea manmar
sec amonstrous distance at Sea, asis contirmed by de
Rupter. In therelacion hegires the states ot FTolland,
Wrherein hetellsthem, chac trom thac place they dis-
cerned the French Flcets approach lone betore they
coutd trom any ocher part, cither oF cheir oirn or
the ocher IMand. I am Cure ic is much higher than
cither that at the IAC de Mayo, or any Thare scen in
Fneland, and vet on this fair Fruittul IMand springS
nocone drop ot mater, the Intrabitants Corins them-
selres withrain, irhich Falling very Frequendy, cher
are caretul to prelerre in Cilteins, divers eslays have
been made in the most promisine part oF it to find
Springs by diggins WVells, one oF chose rrhich I CaW
ras without doube che decpest in Furope, Premem-
bernocthe exact protundier as ther related it, butI
have not Forgot, thac chromins in a cone it Was
lons ere it gor to the bortom, and then returned
such a noise as it had been the discharge oF a
Musquet.
The cause oF this drinels mas by the people
thoushtto be subterrancan heats, ab lumine theWater,
buc no such thino appearins, to the sense oF those
chat disged the Wells, I gare no taich to thaL per-
Suasion; ther taner such heats partly trom the mant
oF water, but mostly because the Tour adjacent
TMands, Stromboli, Vulcano. Vulcanella, and M. Aitna-
are constanely burnins, and very near them.