Chap.ao. ^t TreMife of B D I E S, 22; 



Tvorketh faintefi where he is furtheft off.- and therefore from 

 the north no more emanations or atomcs will be drawn, but 

 fuch as are moft fubtilifed, and duly prepared for that courfe. 

 And fince oncly thcfc fele&cd bands do now march towards 

 the equator, their files muft needs be thinner, then when the 

 funncs being in the equator or Tropick of Cancer wakeneth 

 and muftereth up all their forces. And confcquently, the quiec 

 parts of aire between their files ( in which like atomes are alfo 

 Scattered ) are the greater : whereby the adrenicnt fouthern 

 atomes have the larger filter to climbe up by. And tke like hap- 

 peneth in the other hemifphere, when the funne is in the Tro- 

 pick of Cancer; as who will beftow the pains to compare them, 

 will prefently fee. 



Now then let us confider what thefe two ftrcams thus incor- ,, 

 porated muft of neceflity do in the furface or upper parts of the of thefe atomw 

 earth. Firft, it is evident they muft needs penetrate a pretty STomVet 

 depth into the earth; for ib free/ing perfwadeth us, and much matter in the 

 more, the fubtile penetration ofdivcrs more fpirituall bodies, of r artn%rnade 

 which we have fufficiemly difcour fed above. Now let us con. ftne. 

 ceive that thefe fleams do find a body of a convenient denfuy to 

 incorporate thcmfelves in, in the way of dcn/iry, as we fee that 

 fire doth in iron, and in other denfe bodies: and this not for 

 an hourc or two as happencth in fire; but for years : as I have 

 been told that in the extreme cold hills in the Peak in Darby- 

 fhire happeneth to the dry atomes of cold, which are permanent- 

 ly incorporated in water by long continuall freefing and (0 

 make a kind of chryftall. 



In this ca{c,certainly it muft come to pafle that this body will 

 become in a manner wholly of the nature of thefe fleams: which 

 becaufe they arc drawn from the Poles that abound in cold and 

 drynefle, (for others thai have not thefe qualities,do not contri- 

 bute to the intended effeAJthe body is apteft to become a ftone: 

 forfo we fee that cold & drought turneth doe fuperficiall parts of 

 the earth into ftoncs & rock$;& accordingly,wlierefoever cold & Thi* none 

 dry winds rcienc powerfully, all fuch countries are mainly rocky work e-h by 



J r l.- a r , "anarion<. 



Now then let us fuppofe , this ttone to be taken out of the joyncd w ; t ha- 

 carth and hanged in the aire.or fet conveniently upon fome little f^THfeerThSn 

 pin, or otherwife put in liberty, fo as a fmall impulfc may cafily |n the airc; ard 

 turn it any way: it will m this cafe certainly follow, that the 



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