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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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Faciliti, and came to the Stancia aboue cleven oF the
clock, Wrhere chey dincd, and thenee about one in che
ACcernoon (et Formards For che. Villa, Wrhere ther ar-
rived that alcernoon about Aivethat F vening.
ACcer their return they Found their Faces (by rea-
son oF cheheat oF the Sun, and the parchins subtil
Wind) cocasttheir stins.
Fre didnot meature the Perpendicular heighe orthe
TTiIIhim elE, buc Pars that he hath been informed by
divers siltul Scamen, (Who by cheirbest observation
have calsen the heishe oFit) chat it is betreen chrec
and cour miles perpendicularly abOre ThCSCa.
Nthis Relation it is very remarkable:
 Pirst, thac this prodigious high ETill is the Product
ot an Farthquakze, and seems heretotore tohare Becn
a Vulcano, or burnins Mlountain, like thole oF Ana-
Vesuvius, Hecla, ec. though at present it hach only
tire enough letc to Pend Forth lome ferr Culphureous
tumes, and to makse thecarth oF the Caldera or hoi-
lor picat therery top chereot in lome places almost
hoc cnouoh to buen their Mooesthat pals overit. And
Posbly in succceding Ages eren this licele tire may bc
quite extinet, and thenno othertion thereot mar bc
lett buc a prodigiousr high Rock or lpiring Moun-
tain, Wrhich in eraet oftime may by degreesmaste and
bediminished into a FTiIl oF amoremoderate heigHt. 
Nom as this TTill Peems very evidently to bc the
effectot an Barchquake, (0 P am apt to beliere that
molt, iE noc all ocher Hills oF the morid Whacever
mar have been the lame mar generated. Nay, nOL
ontr aII the FTIIIS, Buc also che Land irtrich appears
aborethetace oF theaters. And For this I could
produce very many Tristories and Arguments chat
rould makre it leem verr probable, but chat I reserre
them inthe Lectures wrhich P read ot this subject in
Cresam Collcde in the vears 1664, and 1665.
erhich Wrhen P can hare time to peruse lmay publist.
Pherein