Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 49
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- Therein Imade ie probable chat most IMandshare
- been chronn up by Tome subterraneous Pruptions.
- Such is the IDand OF Ascension, che Moluccas, _2C.
- Secondlr, chae most pare oF the Surtace oF the
- Farch hachbeen lince the C reation changed in its po-
- sition and height in respect oF the Sca, to rit, many
- parts rhich are no der Land, and lie abore thesca,
- hare Been in Former Ares covered with ic; and
- that manz parts, Which are nom corered richtheSCa,
- vere in former times dey Land. Mountains have
- been Cunke into Plains, and Plains hare beenraised
- intomountains.
- OF chese by obserrations I hare siven instances,
- and Beed that divers pARES OF Fneland hare in FOr-
- mer times been corered with the Sca, there beine
- Found ac chis day in the most TMland paTES FhCTCOF CuF-
- ficient evidences toprore it, towit, Shells oF divers
- (OTES OF Filbes, mans oE Wrhich vet remain ol ehe ani-
- mal substance, though others De Found petrified and
- converredintostone. Some oF theleare Found railed
- tothe topsoF thehiphest Mountains, others Cunk in-
- tothe boctoms oF the decpest Mines and WellS, nay,
- in the very bovels of the Mountains and Ouarries et
- Stonc. Phare added also divers other instances to
- prove che Pame chins OF Other PANES OF Furope, and
- haremanifested, noc only chat che lorver and plainer
- partsthereol hare been under the Sea, but that eren
- the highest Alpine and Pyrenean Mountains have run
- the lame Fate. Many Instances oEthe likre nature Thave
- allomet ith in Relations and obserrations made in
- the Fast asrellasinthe W est Indies,
- OF all irtrich Strange occurrences I can conceire no
- causemore probable than Farthquakces and (uibcerra-
- neous Fruptions Which Histories do Culticiently asture
- ustrave changed sea into Land, and Land into Sea,
- Vales into Nountains Pometimes, into Lates and
- Aby Resat Ocher times; and the contrary unless re
- may be allored to suxpole that the mater or Auid
- Pa2E
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Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring, fol. 49. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/859264114:0059?run=74