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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 31

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  1. Theobrious carth oF this place is loore, and in aII
  2. apparene qualities very good, but by the heaps thac
  3. had been chromn ux, in diggins thc Wells, I Par the
  4. inferiour carth as clammy, or lilse clar, that hac
  5. Tome srealie summous marter commixed, Thisthe
  6. Relisious told me ras che very kind et Sulxhur
  7. Wrhich constanez borled out ot the burninq Crannr
  8. On Vulcanella; and irhereith als those Islands abound-
  9. ed, noc exceptins cheir omn, though it vere nocyet
  10. kinaled.
  11. For my third obserration, Twill s0 noFarther than
  12. the place oF my prelent abodc, Pummonth, in rrtrich
  13. on a kind oF Pia2za, commonly called the Nem- Rey
  14. Ca plat ot ground goc in trom the SCa) is a WVcII
  15. Wrhich (betore cheerer Famous Sir Francis Drahe by
  16. cuetiva a Rivulec ot thirer miles procured us Water
  17. in great pleney) ras oE common ule, havine (aS at
  18. ehis daz) a Pump in it; about seven vears since (BC-
  19. ins betore che Rey was inlarged) the Well IaSNOE
  20. abore eiohe foor tromthe edge thereot, over irhich
  21. the Sea mouid Frequenty Roir, irhen a tioh out-
  22. rind ane a Spring Iide concurred, I Cay this WeII.
  23. thovoh loncar the Sea, vieldech clean Water, and a5
  24. Crcet 5a mixture oF chrec parts trem and one oF CalE
  25. acer rould bc. About an hundred vards From thac
  26. onoround a licele risino, is d verr large WeII, irtricti
  27. Supplieththrce or Four Bren houles, Dy irhole drinte
  28. it is evident chat the mater hach noc holly quitred
  29. its salt. IE is eo be noced, that Plimmonth liethon a.
  30. Penintula three miles lons, and trro broad, the IIth-
  31. inus about trochirds oF a mile ide, and noc very
  32. hioh fromthe surtace oE a FuII Sea. There are many
  33. WVells in ie thosenear the sea are Caltist, chose tar-
  34. ther From it the lesS (0.
  35. y Fourch obscrration Pcake From the late Famous
  36. French Fraveller Monsieur Paverner, Wrho in his first
  37. Volume, discourting oF the C OaltOE Coromandel, XC.
  38. he Paich chey chere mane trem ater, and arc con
  39. Straincd

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 31. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0041?run=74