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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 37

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  1. First, Thac the great inundations or overAomine
  2. oF Rivers manitesly proceed cither From the Rain
  3. chatimmediatels FalIs, Or trom chemelting OF SnO Or
  4. Tccthat hathformerly Fallen on the mOre eminenE PaRES
  5. et Mountains; to contirm irhich, Hliltories enouxt
  6. mioht bebrouoht ere it neceslarr oE Nilus, Nicer, CEC.
  7. Secondlr, That it hach been obferred and compu-
  8. ted that communibus annis es locis; there FallS ater
  9. enoush trom the Sky in actual Rain, Sno, or Hail up-
  10. on che Surtace oF Fneland to lupply allthemater that
  11. runs back into che Scabr the Rivers, and also all chat
  12. mas beluppoledto craporato, nay, chouxh the quan-
  13. city oFche hrs be suppoled trrice asmuchi asreally it
  14. 15. This Phare been altured by those that hare both
  15. experimented and calculated ic.
  16. Thiralr, Thac there is not vet certainly (thatY
  17. hnom or have heard oF) any other ray oE makcino
  18. salemater Frestr, buc by Vistillacion; Wrhich, had there
  19. been such an APE, it rould in all probabiliey have
  20. beenmade uleot, and (ochere is lictle probabilier that
  21. the Springs ac thetop oE a high Hill Mould procecd
  22. Fromthe Sca- mater Strained chrongh the carth. BuE
  23. rere there uch a Elcration knonn P hinted in my AF-
  24. cempt, publistred anno 1660 about Filtration, hoir
  25. Comemhat oF chaclind mighe be explained.
  26. Fourchly, Fhac chis Operation is constanely and
  27. mostcertainly pertormed by Nature Boch in extralins
  28. and dramine up Frestr seams and rapours Fromthe Sea,
  29. and all moxst bodies, and in precipitating them donn
  30. again in Rain, Sno, Hail, but ot theocher me have
  31. nO CertaInEY.
  32. Filchlr, Phare obserred in scveral places Wrhere a
  33. Trechach Atood uxon an bish HilI, Cinsly and parti
  34. culariy at the bro OF BOX HLIII near Darhine in Sup-
  35. ry chacthebody of che Precis continually wet, and
  36. at the rooe lome quancier ot ater, which is alirays
  37. Tonkins and sliding donn Erom the Branches and bo-
  38. dy oE the Prec, the lcares, sprigo, and branches ot
  39. thC

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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 37. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0047?run=74