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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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digoins Tce which as very chick, ochers remained
abore. Ther Found the mouth ot the Care aboue
chrec rardshigh, and erro rardsbroad; and being a1
oF them desirousto descendintoit, by a Rope Fastned
about their bodies under their armpits ther vere sII
one alcer another lec dorn into it eill they came to
set cheir Fcet uponthe Tce, Wrhich is abOut (IXtCCH OK
eiohteen tooc trom the mouth.
The Care is noc rery large, but fuil oF mater and
Icc, trhich at the cime irhen ther vere there lay
about a Foot underthe Surtace oF the ater, thouxh
the men chaE uTualIY 50 chithor laid ch aE at ocher
times ther found the Pce abore the rater, wrhich
makces many to suppole that it cbbs and Aorsbr means
OF Lome secret entercourse that it may have with the
Sea, theraverring chat they have (cen ic empeying oe
It(CIF.
Buc chisGentleman (o Poon as ever he came donmn
fixt his ere upon a Rone that lar just abore the Sy
perticies oF the mater, and obserred very diliventie
buc coutdnot in all thespace chathestaid there, whicM
Was halEan hour, find it cither increase or diministi,
Wrhich makeshim beliere chac che Fulnels or emptinels
oF the mater may rather procced trom those chicke
f0gs and milts wrhich arc generallr on chetop, an4
irhich hinder the Pihe From being scen lometimes For
errentr, thirer, nar, Forty dapstogether, exceptonly
just at cherisins or lettins oF thesun, chough at lome
Other times it happens allothat the AIr is clearer, and
the Pike may be seen perhraps for a month togethers
lrom chele milts he conceires at lome times much
ater mar be collected at the upper parts oF the Dihe
and Conkins domnmay noc only Cupply, buc increale
che water in the Care; and consonant to this IIypo.
thehishe obserred rhilst. he was there, thacthere nas
a continual glcetins and droppins oE mater in lIX OP
seren places trom the Cides oF the Cares ihieh drop.
pinsshe suxpolesmas be greater or lels accordins 28
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