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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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preatheat and sineil oF Brimctone; andche lame day, an
hour BCTOre Sun-Pet at one oF the months ofthe mea
rilom FTill Was a trembling thereabou mich more vio-
lence than any ofthe four dars betore; and a great and
black (moak came Forth with a terrible chundringnoile,
openins a verr wide mouth, and chroming ouc mueti
tire, rith melted Rocks andctones; and immediately
afcer at another place cishey paces belon hapned the
likre cerrible noise and Gioht, and in lels than a quarter
OFan hour alter thereopened to the quancier ofcion-
teen months torrards the foot ot the Paid Mountaims.
andthere ifsued ouc tre, melcea LOcks, arc ocher Bitu-
MInOUS MAEter FrOm all the Paid mouths, and WaS pre-
Senely Formed into a great River oF re, Wrhich tookits
course over the Arst mentioned Plain, Donly goine
domntomardsthe Paid holy Fountain; but it pleased
Cod beins come michineight spaces oE the Brink ot
the Caid oreat descent, it turned a lictle on the riont
Fde, and tooh its course with a verr great tall eo-
rards the old Port, trhich is that vhich Was APA
entred by the Spaniards wrhen cher took the
IBandS.
Firidas chemineteenth ac erro a clock in the aEcer-
noon in the atorelaid Mountain OF CiOaCS, On the OtHeE
Side oF Fassacorte, there opened anocher mouch
rich much (moak and sones oF sire, and (0 closed
2sain. BuE the next day (thetmentiech) it began
again to smoak, and continued rith great erem-
blins and noile in the bovels oE the Rarth uneil
Sunday che tveney sirsc ac noon, wrhen with many
Aactinos oF sire, and a greater thundring noise it
Einistred chat openins oE thac. monctrous bieth, cast-
ins up intothe Air Boch sire arid stones, and ac nighe
thelmoak ceasinz, the thundrinsnoise, sire and ctones.
increaled, Forcing great hery stones Cohigh into the
Rir as we loK CighEOF them, and with uch violence
senc them upmards chat according tothe best judo-
ment chey irero hre times longer in Falline donro,
irhiict