p($ Of SPRINGS and Chap. 9. 



cann t but ftill continue of the fame Opini- 

 on I was, as to the Sea, and the Subterra- 

 neous Aquedufts that correfpond with it, to 

 be at leaft the Ground and Foundation of all 

 that Watry Body, that lies as it were latent 

 in the Bowels of the Earth, and that thefe 

 Waters are agitated by fome Aerial Principle, 

 and made to afcend up into the higheft Hills, 

 in fome degree or other, according to the 

 Capacioufnefs of thofe Subterraneous Foun- 

 tains they receive their Kife from. 



That the Rains help to feed and keep up 

 Springs, is evident enough 5 but how they 

 fliould be the Original thereof, is hard to 

 judge 5 for admitting they thus aggregate to- 

 gether in great Bodies, (as that Treatife fup- 

 pofes) and fo break out of the Side-Hills, and 

 that the large Trads of Land that lie level 

 with them, fhould for fome time fupply the 

 Current of thofe Springs, yet that has not 

 weight enough in it to determine this Matter 5 

 fince thofe Fountains aftuating, as he affirms, 

 only by downright or direft Motion, would 

 much fooner grow dry, than we often obfervc 

 them to do. 



But, on the contrary, by one Example, to 

 which, had I time, I might add a great many 

 more, as an ingenious Perfon of my Acquaint- 

 ance, that was born near it, aflures me that 

 there is a round Hill in the Shire oi Aberdeen 

 in Scotland, cali'd Pennychy or Bend-up-High^ 

 about the height of a Scotch Mile, and fo 

 fteep, that they are oblig'd to go round it 5 



that 



