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from producing fuch an effect, that on th^ 

 contrary they give a more pleafing afped, a^ 

 well as great advantages. For thus the terre- 

 flrial fuperficies is larger ; different kinds of 

 plants thrive better, and are more eafily wa- 

 tered, and the ram-waters run in continual 

 flreams into the fea, not to mention many 

 other ufes in relation to winds, heat and cold. 

 Alps are the higheft mountains, that reach 

 to the fecond region of the air, where trees 

 cannot grow ered. The higher thefe Alps 

 are, the colder they are ceteris paribus. Hence 

 the Alps in Sweden, Siberia, Swifferland, Peru, 

 Brafil, Armenia, Afia, Africa, are perpetually 

 covered with fnow ; which becomes almofl ^ as 

 hard as ice. Bur, if by chance the fummer 

 heats be greater than ordinary, fome part of 

 thefe flores melts, and runs through rivers 

 into the lower regions, which by this means 

 are much refrefhed. 



It is fcarcely to be doubted, but that the 

 rocks and flones difperfed over the globe were 

 formed originally in, and from the earth ; but 

 when torrents of rain have foftened, as they 

 eafily do, the foluble earth, and carried it 

 down into the lower parts, we imagine it hap- 

 pens that thefe folid, and heavy bodies, being 



laid 



