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this very rain water, and vapours condenfcd, 

 that trickle through the holes, and interftices 

 of loole bodies, and are received into caverns. 



Thefe afford a pure water purged by ftrain- 

 ing, which rarely dry up in fummer, or freeze 

 in winter, fo that animals never want a whole- 

 fome and refrelliing liquor. 



The chief fources of rivers are fountains, 

 and rills growing by gradual fupplies into ftill 

 larger and larger flreams, till at laft, after the 

 conflux of a vaft number of them, they find no 

 flop, but falling into the fea with leflened ra- 

 pidity, they there depofit the united ftores 

 they have gathered, along with foreign mat- 

 ter, and fuch earthy fubftances, as they tore 

 off in their way. Thus the water returns 

 in a circle, whence it firft drew its origin, 

 that it may acl over the fame fcene again. 



Marfhes arifing from water retained in low 

 grounds are filled with moffy tumps, which are 

 brought down by the water from the higher 

 parts, or are produced by putrifyed plants. 



We often fee new meadows arife from 

 marfhes dryed up. This happens fooner when 

 the ^ fphagnum F. S. 864.* has laid a founda- • 



e A kind of mofs. 



* This refers to the firfl Edition of the Flora Suecica. It 

 is 958 in the fecond Edition. 



tion ; 



