Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 48

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1. Faciliti, and came to the Stancia aboue cleven oF the
2. clock, Wrhere chey dincd, and thenee about one in che
3. ACcernoon (et Formards For che. Villa, Wrhere ther ar-
4. rived that alcernoon about Aivethat F vening.
5. ACcer their return they Found their Faces (by rea-
6. son oF cheheat oF the Sun, and the parchins subtil
7. Wind) cocasttheir stins.
8. Fre didnot meature the Perpendicular heighe orthe
9. TTiIIhim elE, buc Pars that he hath been informed by
10. divers siltul Scamen, (Who by cheirbest observation
11. have calsen the heishe oFit) chat it is betreen chrec
12. and cour miles perpendicularly abOre ThCSCa.
13. Nthis Relation it is very remarkable:
14. Pirst, thac this prodigious high ETill is the Product
15. ot an Farthquakze, and seems heretotore tohare Becn
16. a Vulcano, or burnins Mlountain, like thole oF Ana-
17. Vesuvius, Hecla, ec. though at present it hach only
18. tire enough letc to Pend Forth lome ferr Culphureous
19. tumes, and to makse thecarth oF the Caldera or hoi-
20. lor picat therery top chereot in lome places almost
21. hoc cnouoh to buen their Mooesthat pals overit. And
22. Posbly in succceding Ages eren this licele tire may bc
23. quite extinet, and thenno othertion thereot mar bc
24. lett buc a prodigiousr high Rock or lpiring Moun-
25. tain, Wrhich in eraet oftime may by degreesmaste and
26. bediminished into a FTiIl oF amoremoderate heigHt.
27. Nom as this TTill Peems very evidently to bc the
28. effectot an Barchquake, (0 P am apt to beliere that
29. molt, iE noc all ocher Hills oF the morid Whacever
30. mar have been the lame mar generated. Nay, nOL
31. ontr aII the FTIIIS, Buc also che Land irtrich appears
32. aborethetace oF theaters. And For this I could
33. produce very many Tristories and Arguments chat
34. rould makre it leem verr probable, but chat I reserre
35. them inthe Lectures wrhich P read ot this subject in
36. Cresam Collcde in the vears 1664, and 1665.
37. erhich Wrhen P can hare time to peruse lmay publist.
38. Pherein

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