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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 40

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  1. 1
  2. verba, L et Fruth only prevail, and Theories Conihe
  3. no Furcher chanrighe reasonins From accurate ObTer-
  4. vacionsand Experiments doth contirm and agrec wich
  5. them.
  6. Flaving thus delivered here Pomerrhat oF my omn
  7. thougtts concernins Sprinss and Rivers, tindins
  8. amone lome oF my P’apers a Relation, Wrhereina very
  9. Srange subterraneous Ciltern is mentioned, I hare
  10. here subiorned it as I receired ic From MC. Thomas
  11. Alcock From Bristol wrhro together with Sir FTumphry
  12. Flooke ras by Wrhilst Captain sammet Sturmy made chis
  13. inquirr, and irho by interrogatories made to him,
  14. Dennd ehis Relation tor him as it Follois ver-
  15. batim.
  16. NV pursuance oF FIis Majesties Commands to me at
  17. a the prelentins oF my Mariners Macazine, Thave
  18. wichmuch diligence, lome charge and peril endeavou-
  19. red to dilcorerthat great C oncarity in the carthinCilo-
  20. cesterstire, Tour miles From Kinerode, Wrhere His Ma-
  21. jecties great Shripsride in thesevern. And I And By
  22. experience thac rhat hasbeen reported oE chat place
  23. isfabulous, Whilst Ithus describe it.
  24. Tpon the sccond oF Fuly 1669. I descended by
  25. Ropes afixE at the top ot an old Lcad Oare
  26. Pit, Tour Pachoms almost perpendicular, and trom
  27. thence three F’achoms more obliquely, Becreen tro
  28. Sreat Rocks, Wrhere IFound the mouth ot thisspaci-
  29. ous place, From which a Minc man and my selF
  30. Lorerdour selres by Ropes trency Are Fathomsper-
  31. pendicular, into a very larse place indeed, relem-
  32. blino tO usthe fOrm OF a FIOrTC. 10O; For We Buck
  33. lighted Candles aIl the ray re ment, to dilcover
  34. irhat me could fnd remarkeabole; at lensch we came
  35. toa Rirer orgreat Wacer, prhich I Foundto betrentr
  36. Fachoms broad, and cighi Fathoms decp. TheMine-
  37. man rould have pertiraded me, thac this River
  38. Ebhed and Flomed, For thatlometen lathoms abore
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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 40. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0050?run=74