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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 34

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  1. C3
  2. manifestr existent, and mith all the adrantares ne-
  3. cellarr: It Ccemins tome a very rational conjecture,
  4. thac che grealie clammy Sulphur, Whererich chac
  5. carch mas impreonated, did by oppilatins it hinder
  6. the insinvation oE theSca intoit.
  7. From chethird obserration rou have che hrst de
  8. duction contirmed, viz. Thac Springs are Pometimes
  9. manifestly Erom the Sca; Fhaccarth Cireetens Sca- Wa-
  10. ter by Percolation; And chat chenearer Springs are
  11. tothe Sea, chemorether retain ol their priltine Calt-
  12. nels, and lose it by sentible degrees, ad they infinuate
  13. Fartherthroughit.
  14. By che Fourchchelameis, contirmed.
  15. The AEch proveth, that large Areams Rorr ithoue
  16. any postibilier oF beins supplied by rain, boch For
  17. Wrant oF Tuch rain, andot dimentions to receire and
  18. containic.
  19. Thesixch docheridence, that rain doch noc pene-
  20. crace the Surtace oF the carth, even in a very dey
  21. Parched Country, anct in the Torrid Lonc, and vec
  22. That Sprinos are under ic, rhich aE OnCC prOVeSOUES,
  23. andrefutes the other opinion; the former appears by
  24. the macer in thole made Ponds, lyins chere For a
  25. lono time richout any sensible lolsthereoFby its leat-
  26. ins into the carth: The lacer By thc WVellS near che
  27. Sea, and thole Found lince under chat impervious
  28. Lend.
  29. HTe thacisnoc altogether a Rranger 10 che weixt,
  30. prelture, and Flalticiey oE che air, ehe ascension ot
  31. liguors chrourh Pilters, and Pome otter resembline
  32. Phaenomena, vould noc acconne the like motion ot
  33. thecranscolated rater to tigh hills, to bc an obje-
  34. ction of any torce against this Hypothelis, but lure
  35. such Colutions are Do lels beyond my abiliey chan
  36. delion.
  37. Findins Thare Paper cnough left, Y will presume
  38. totrouble rou withone rare appearance more, that
  39. occurred t0 one Wr. Brasey oE this Forn, an ascd
  40. anc

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 34. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0044?run=74