# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0047
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0047?run=74
# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
# Folio 37, page id 859264114:0047
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=859264114&page=47
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/859264114/jpgs/default/00000047.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 39 lines, status machine
# Lines: 39 recognised, mean confidence 0.90
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

First, Thac the great inundations or overAomine
oF Rivers manitesly proceed cither From the Rain
chatimmediatels FalIs, Or trom chemelting OF SnO Or
Tccthat hathformerly Fallen on the mOre eminenE PaRES
et Mountains; to contirm irhich, Hliltories enouxt
mioht bebrouoht ere it neceslarr oE Nilus, Nicer, CEC.
Secondlr, That it hach been obferred and compu-
ted that communibus annis es locis; there FallS ater
enoush trom the Sky in actual Rain, Sno, or Hail up-
on che Surtace oF Fneland to lupply allthemater that
runs back into che Scabr the Rivers, and also all chat
mas beluppoledto craporato, nay, chouxh the quan-
city oFche hrs be suppoled trrice asmuchi asreally it
15. This Phare been altured by those that hare both
experimented and calculated ic.
Thiralr, Thac there is not vet certainly (thatY
hnom or have heard oF) any other ray oE makcino
salemater Frestr, buc by Vistillacion; Wrhich, had there
been such an APE, it rould in all probabiliey have
beenmade uleot, and (ochere is lictle probabilier that
the Springs ac thetop oE a high Hill Mould procecd
Fromthe Sca- mater Strained chrongh the carth. BuE
rere there uch a Elcration knonn P hinted in my AF-
cempt, publistred anno 1660 about Filtration, hoir
Comemhat oF chaclind mighe be explained.
Fourchly, Fhac chis Operation is constanely and
mostcertainly pertormed by Nature Boch in extralins
and dramine up Frestr seams and rapours Fromthe Sea,
and all moxst bodies, and in precipitating them donn
again in Rain, Sno, Hail, but ot theocher me have
nO CertaInEY.
Filchlr, Phare obserred in scveral places Wrhere a
Trechach Atood uxon an bish HilI, Cinsly and parti
culariy at the bro OF BOX HLIII near Darhine in Sup-
ry chacthebody of che Precis continually wet, and
at the rooe lome quancier ot ater, which is alirays
Tonkins and sliding donn Erom the Branches and bo-
dy oE the Prec, the lcares, sprigo, and branches ot
thC