230 STUDIES OF nature; 



Sun, who aâ:s, only during the day, on the two 

 icy extremities of the Continents of the New 

 World, and of the Old. As to the Euripus, the 

 variety, the number, and the rapidity of it's fluxes, 

 prove that they have their origin, in like manner, 

 in icy mountains, fituated at different oiftances, 

 and under different afpefts of the Sun. For, ac- 

 cording to that fame Jefuir, the Ifland of Eubea, 

 which is on one fide of the lirait, contains moun- 

 tains covered with fnow for fix months of the 

 year; and we know equally well, that Bcotia, 

 which is on the other fide, contains feveral moun- 

 tains of an equal elevation, and even fome which 

 are crowned with ice all the year round, fuch as 

 Mount Oëta. If thefe fluxes and refluxes of the 

 Euripus take place as frequently in Winter, which 

 is not affirmed, the caufeof them mud be afcribed 

 to the rains which fall, at that feafon of the year, 

 on the fummits of thefe lofty collateral mountains. 



I fliall enable the Reader to form an idea of 

 thefe, not very apparent, caufes of the movements 

 of the Euripus, by here tranfcribing what Spon 

 relates, in another place *, of the Lake of Liva- 

 dia, or Copaide, which is in it's vicinity. This 

 lake receives the firfl fluxes of the icy effufions of 



*• Vovage to Greece and the Levant, by Spon, vol. ii. pages 

 88 and 89. 



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