Springs, Rivers, and the Sea* i2 



The prodigious quantity of vapours 

 raised by the sun's heat, and otherwise, 

 being carried by the winds over the low 

 lands to the very ridges of mountains, as 

 the Pyrenean, the Alps, the Apennine, the 

 Carpathian, in Europe ; the Taurus the 

 Caucasus, Imaus and others in Asia ; 

 Atlas the Monies Lunce, or mountains 

 of the moon, with other unknown ridges 

 in Africa ; the vapours being compelled 

 by the stream of air to mount up with it 

 to the top of those mountains, where the 

 air becoming too light to sustain them, 

 and condensed by cold they strike against 

 their summits^ which causes an union of 

 their particles, and are precipitated in 

 water, which gleets down by the crannies 

 of the stone ; and entering into the ca- 

 verns of the hills, gathers, as in an alem~ 

 lie, into the basons of stone it finds, 

 which being once filled, all the overplus 

 of water that comes thither, runs over by 

 the lowest places, and breaking out by 

 the sides of the hills forms single spmgs. 



Many of these springs running down 



by the vallies, between the ridges of the 



hills, and coming to unite, form little 



rivulets, or brooks ; many of these agaia 



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