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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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crained to make pits oF erro Poor decp intheland by
cheSea totind it.
The hEch obserration, and which Pwould calt etie
most Bigniticant, vere 1 altured oE its truth, l had
From a very ingenious Chirurscon, irho had uled thc
West Indias, that chere is in that Sea an IPand called
Rotunda, OF a Fgure agreeable to its name, rhrich,
chough very Imall, hach on ic, aritins in che midale,
a Sprins ot a very large Cream oE ater, at ertrich
our Stips Frequenely Furnih chemselres in cheir Navi-
sation, he attirmed thac ic raineth there buc once à
vear, a5 at the IBIC de Mayo; Pavins withal, thac che
Tlland is Comort ot a proxortion big enouphforthe
Cream, thac it ic constanes rained, ic could not bc
supply enoust to mantain (o larse an P HUZ.
Ny sixth and last, is the relation oE DC. Domnes
concernins Barbadoes, viz. chatall cheir Springsvere
Formerly very near thesca; chat up in theCounry
chey supplicd chemletres trom che rains by disgins
Dits in thecarth, able to contain great quancities, and
there preservins ic; Wrhch cher did a vers lons time
(therainsbeins there as untrequent 25 at the IIC de
Mayo) and thac rithout aur senble diminution by
penetratins and delcending into the carth; and to
prevent the lols chereot br che extralations oF the
Sunthes coreredic with leaves, esc. but that nor by
diggins deeper chey find Sprines lo plenty chat no
Plancation is rithout Onc.
From all cheseobserrations the Follorrins consecta-
ries domechanicallr result.
From the Arstit appeareth chat fome Springs have
manifestlr cheir Cource From the Sca; chat Cand (vec-
tens transcolated Sca-Water, and that even pickle
Straincdchrough it loseth much of ies Calinels cherebr.
all Wrhichis crident From the Well therein mentiored,
erhose marer could not poltiblr be ocher than What
Coaked in trom the Pond andche Ocean.
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