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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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Therein Imade ie probable chat most IMandshare
been chronn up by Tome subterraneous Pruptions.
Such is the IDand OF Ascension, che Moluccas, _2C.
Secondlr, chae most pare oF the Surtace oF the
Farch hachbeen lince the C reation changed in its po-
sition and height in respect oF the Sca, to rit, many
parts rhich are no der Land, and lie abore thesca,
hare Been in Former Ares covered with ic; and
that manz parts, Which are nom corered richtheSCa,
vere in former times dey Land. Mountains have
been Cunke into Plains, and Plains hare beenraised
intomountains.
OF chese by obserrations I hare siven instances,
and Beed that divers pARES OF Fneland hare in FOr-
mer times been corered with the Sca, there beine
Found ac chis day in the most TMland paTES FhCTCOF CuF-
ficient evidences toprore it, towit, Shells oF divers
(OTES OF Filbes, mans oE Wrhich vet remain ol ehe ani-
mal substance, though others De Found petrified and
converredintostone. Some oF theleare Found railed
tothe topsoF thehiphest Mountains, others Cunk in-
tothe boctoms oF the decpest Mines and WellS, nay,
in the very bovels of the Mountains and Ouarries et
Stonc. Phare added also divers other instances to
prove che Pame chins OF Other PANES OF Furope, and
haremanifested, noc only chat che lorver and plainer
partsthereol hare been under the Sea, but that eren
the highest Alpine and Pyrenean Mountains have run
the lame Fate. Many Instances oEthe likre nature Thave
allomet ith in Relations and obserrations made in
the Fast asrellasinthe W est Indies,
OF all irtrich Strange occurrences I can conceire no
causemore probable than Farthquakces and (uibcerra-
neous Fruptions Which Histories do Culticiently asture
ustrave changed sea into Land, and Land into Sea,
Vales into Nountains Pometimes, into Lates and
Aby Resat Ocher times; and the contrary unless re
may be allored to suxpole that the mater or Auid
Pa2E