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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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manifestr existent, and mith all the adrantares ne-
cellarr: It Ccemins tome a very rational conjecture,
thac che grealie clammy Sulphur, Whererich chac
carch mas impreonated, did by oppilatins it hinder
the insinvation oE theSca intoit.
From chethird obserration rou have che hrst de
duction contirmed, viz. Thac Springs are Pometimes
manifestly Erom the Sca; Fhaccarth Cireetens Sca- Wa-
ter by Percolation; And chat chenearer Springs are
tothe Sea, chemorether retain ol their priltine Calt-
nels, and lose it by sentible degrees, ad they infinuate
Fartherthroughit.
By che Fourchchelameis, contirmed.
The AEch proveth, that large Areams Rorr ithoue
any postibilier oF beins supplied by rain, boch For
Wrant oF Tuch rain, andot dimentions to receire and
containic.
Thesixch docheridence, that rain doch noc pene-
crace the Surtace oF the carth, even in a very dey
Parched Country, anct in the Torrid Lonc, and vec
That Sprinos are under ic, rhich aE OnCC prOVeSOUES,
andrefutes the other opinion; the former appears by
the macer in thole made Ponds, lyins chere For a
lono time richout any sensible lolsthereoFby its leat-
ins into the carth: The lacer By thc WVellS near che
Sea, and thole Found lince under chat impervious
Lend.
HTe thacisnoc altogether a Rranger 10 che weixt,
prelture, and Flalticiey oE che air, ehe ascension ot
liguors chrourh Pilters, and Pome otter resembline
Phaenomena, vould noc acconne the like motion ot
thecranscolated rater to tigh hills, to bc an obje-
ction of any torce against this Hypothelis, but lure
such Colutions are Do lels beyond my abiliey chan
delion.
Findins Thare Paper cnough left, Y will presume
totrouble rou withone rare appearance more, that
occurred t0 one Wr. Brasey oE this Forn, an ascd
anc