Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 38

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1. the Paid trees collectinq and condensine continuay
2. the moyst part OF the Rir, the Came beinq indeed a
3. true and lively reprelentation oF a River. NOr
4. has it been my obtervarion alone, but the lame is
5. mentioned by divers Authors: And it is aftirmed
6. by Tome Authors, that there are Pome IMlands in the
7. Forrid Zone irhich have no other mater in them
8. than irhat is condensed out oF che Air by the Prees
9. at thetopsoF cheHills, and converted into drops ot
10. Rain.
11. Sixthly, Thac ic is generally obserred, Whercever
12. chere are high Hills there are generallr mans springs
13. round about the boctoms ot them ot verr fret and
14. elear water, and ofcen times lome ihich rise very
15. neor thetops oE them, irhich seems to procced From
16. their sreat eleration abore the otter plain Cuperticial
17. Parts ot the carth, whereby the dir being dactred
18. and broken against them, ther help to condense the
19. rapours that arcelerated into the higher and cooler
20. Regions oF the ir, and (0 Perre like Filtres to dram
21. dornthole rapours (o condensed, and conver them
22. into the Vallers beneath, And hence icis verr ulual
23. in Couneries where there arc high HTiIISto sec the tOpS
24. oF them ofcen corered with clouds and mists, rhen
25. it is clear and dey reather beneath in che Vallers.
26. And in the paltine throush thole clouds on thetop
27. Thare very often Found in them very chick mists and
28. Tnallrain, Whereas as Loon as I have descended From
29. che higher intoche lorver parts oF the HiIIS, none oE
30. that mistor rain hath Fallenthere, though Pcould sii
31. perccire chelame milts to remain about theFOP. C ON-
32. Conantto chis Observation mas onc related tome by
33. an inrenious GenEleman NIr. C7. P. Wrho one oF curio
34. olier wich ocher Genelemen Wwhilse he lived in che
35. IPand oF Teneriss, one oF the Canaries made a journer
36. eothe cop oE that prodisious hish Mouncain, called
37. the Pikc. The substance oF irhich (tothis purpose)
38. iras, that che Caldera or hollor Carity, at thevery

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