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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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Further, dE Is probable chac P arthguakes may have
been much more Frequent in Former Ages than they
havebeenin chele lacter, the consideration oF ertrich
Wwiis possibly make chis APertion nor (0 P’aradoxical a8
at Erst hearing it may scem tobe; though even chele
latter Ases harendt been Whollr barren oE Instances
oF thebeing and effects ot them, to convince vou oE
Wrhich Pharehereunto subjorned a Relation and ac-
conntoF onc vers nemly trhrich hapned incheIACOF
Palmaarione the Canaries.
NexE, the clearness ot the Air is very remarkea.
ble, Wrhich made an IMand irhich lay cight Lcagues
OfF to look as il it vere close br. To chis purpole
Thare oftentaken notice oF the great difference there
isbecreen the Air very nearthe lorver surtace ot the
Parth, and that ihich is ac a 800d distance From ic;
That wrhich is very near che carth beins generally (0
thick and opacousthatbodies cannocat any consider-
ble distance beseen distinetly chrouon ic: But the Far=
ther chc ere and object are elerated abore this chick
Air, the more clear do the objects appear. And I
hare divers times taken norice chat itie lame object
seen trom chetop and bortom of a high Tower hach
appeared erice as Far Of When (een at che BOccom aS
irtien scen at the top: Forthe Fyedoch very muen
judee ot the distance oF Objects accordinq as the
Denttr oE the Air berreenthe Eye and Object docti
reprelent them. Hence Phare Peen men look ot Gi
ranciek bignels in a Fog, caused by reason that the
Fogmade chelire judge che object much Farther OH
thanreallr it as, irhren ac the lame time che visible
Anole alcered not. This greatthicknels oF the lorver
Air is sufticientr manifest in the Coelestial bodies, Ferr
OF the fixt Stars or smaller Planets being visible
till cherarea considerable ar raised abore che FIO-
r2ZOn.
Thechird remark abont the moistnels OF the FOGS,
andche production oE rater at chac heighe Pharebe.
TOrc