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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 32

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  1. crained to make pits oF erro Poor decp intheland by
  2. cheSea totind it.
  3. The hEch obserration, and which Pwould calt etie
  4. most Bigniticant, vere 1 altured oE its truth, l had
  5. From a very ingenious Chirurscon, irho had uled thc
  6. West Indias, that chere is in that Sea an IPand called
  7. Rotunda, OF a Fgure agreeable to its name, rhrich,
  8. chough very Imall, hach on ic, aritins in che midale,
  9. a Sprins ot a very large Cream oE ater, at ertrich
  10. our Stips Frequenely Furnih chemselres in cheir Navi-
  11. sation, he attirmed thac ic raineth there buc once à
  12. vear, a5 at the IBIC de Mayo; Pavins withal, thac che
  13. Tlland is Comort ot a proxortion big enouphforthe
  14. Cream, thac it ic constanes rained, ic could not bc
  15. supply enoust to mantain (o larse an P HUZ.
  16. Ny sixth and last, is the relation oE DC. Domnes
  17. concernins Barbadoes, viz. chatall cheir Springsvere
  18. Formerly very near thesca; chat up in theCounry
  19. chey supplicd chemletres trom che rains by disgins
  20. Dits in thecarth, able to contain great quancities, and
  21. there preservins ic; Wrhch cher did a vers lons time
  22. (therainsbeins there as untrequent 25 at the IIC de
  23. Mayo) and thac rithout aur senble diminution by
  24. penetratins and delcending into the carth; and to
  25. prevent the lols chereot br che extralations oF the
  26. Sunthes coreredic with leaves, esc. but that nor by
  27. diggins deeper chey find Sprines lo plenty chat no
  28. Plancation is rithout Onc.
  29. From all cheseobserrations the Follorrins consecta-
  30. ries domechanicallr result.
  31. From the Arstit appeareth chat fome Springs have
  32. manifestlr cheir Cource From the Sca; chat Cand (vec-
  33. tens transcolated Sca-Water, and that even pickle
  34. Straincdchrough it loseth much of ies Calinels cherebr.
  35. all Wrhichis crident From the Well therein mentiored,
  36. erhose marer could not poltiblr be ocher than What
  37. Coaked in trom the Pond andche Ocean.
  38. flCnCC

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 32. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0042?run=74