2P4 0/ SPRINGS and Chap. 9, 



Cloth, or any thing of that kind near the Fire, 

 the Heat immediafely attrafts the humid Par- 

 ticles to itfelf 5) yet how that attraftive Power 

 iliould reach into the Bowels of the Earth, 

 through all thofe Beds and Strata s of Clay, 

 and other Bodies, tl^t lie one upon another, 

 is fomething beyond Nature, unlefs one 

 fiiould refolve it into a hidden fupernatural 

 Power. ! 



The inoft probable Truth in this Cafe 

 feenis to be, that the Springs (as 1 before 

 inention'd) have a Communication through 

 the Pores of the Earth, and that the Sea and 

 Rivers are as it were the Grand Refervoir to 

 them 3 that the weight of Air that lies upon 

 thofe Watry Powers, forces on the Water 

 thro* thofe Subterraneous Aqueduds, and by 

 their interpolition one with another, to afcend 

 likewife to the Tops of the higheft Hills, 

 and where-ever they find eafie PalTages thro' 

 Rocky, Gravelly, or Sandy Holes and Hol- 

 lows. 



To help make out this Suppofition, it is no 

 hard matter to conceive ho^y the violent Agi- 

 tations of the Sea, which generally lies above 

 the main Surface of the Land, may add to 

 this. Cafe ^ and it can be no Objeftion a- 

 gaiuft the Nature of the Wate/, which is 

 doubtlefs purg*d of its Salitick Properties in its 

 Paflages through the" Pores of the Earth. 



And this feems to be the eafier efFefted, 

 becaufe that the Chafms and Hollows in 

 Rocks, and the loofenefs of Gravel, which 



commonly 



