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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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Fop thereos he obserred co be rery Pabby and moyst
and thecarch co Dip underneach hisfeet, beins a very
moyst (OFtC lay or Lome like mortar. And Farther,
thac ac a C are, noc tar trom the top, therc WaS a
sreat quantier oF very trem mater, irhich ras con-
cinvally supplicd, though great quantities of lce mere
continuall fetch d trom thence, and carried donn
into the IMand tor cooling their Wines. Consonant
torrhich Obserration iras that wrhich mas related 10
me by che inquisitire Hr. Pdmund Fally made in
Sc. Flelena erhrilst he Cayed there to oblerre the places
OF the StarS OF the Southern LLemIIPherC, in OrdercO
perfect che Calestial Olobe. Iaring then placed
himselE uxon onc oF cho hixhest Prominences ol that
(malI IBand irhich he Found eo be no lels than 3000
Foot Perpendiculariy abore the Surtace oF the Sea
next adjornins, suppolins thac mighe be the most
convenient place For his deligned obserration; HC
quicklr found his expectation much deceired as to
that purpose For rrhich he chole it; For being Otten
Cohigh into the Rir the motion oF it Was (o violent as
much to disturb his Instrumenes; Buc wrhich Was mOre,
he Found such abundance oE milts and morsture chac
it unolued the Tubes, and corcred his Glastes pre-
senely rich aDer; and rrhick Wras vet more, che
Fogos and milts almost continually hindred the Cphe
OE EHC STAES. But upon remorins to a lorver stacion
in the IBand he as Erced From the Former InCOn
VenIenCCS.
Lcould relate manz Fistories oF chis nature, iwhere-
by ic leems very probable, chac noc only HiIIS, but
Woods alio, do very much contribute to thecon-
dentins oF themoxsture of the air, and convertins
ic into mater, and thereby eo supply the Sprinssand
Rirulers wichfrestr rater: And Jam contidene, wrho-
Foever Balt consider his omn observation et chiona.
ture, and compare them rith this Theory, will sind
mans argumenesto contirm it. Horerei, Nullius in
verba–