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thofe Fountains, as to fill them up in a Mo- 

 ment 5 but that they leifurely correfpond with 

 them, and are the Ground-work and Support 

 of all, and without which the Rains would 

 inevitably fink to the very Centre, and be 

 loft in fo great a Body as the Earth is. 



Agreeable to what I have been urging on 

 this Subjed, is the Opinion of almoft all that 

 have heretofore wrote on the Original of 

 Springs 5 and that the Saline Properties of 

 the Water are left in its Percolation or Paf- 

 fage through the Veins of the Earth. My 

 Lord Bacon affirms, and Cdi>far (as that Great 

 Author has it) made Experiments of it, when 

 he was befieg'd in Alexandria^ and thereby 

 fav'd his Army ^ and that it was Sea-water, he 

 likewife affirms^ becaufe thofe Pits that Cdifar 

 dug, rofe and fell as the Tide did. And that 

 the Waters lie rounding and much higher 

 than the Land, has been confirm'd to me by 

 an Ingenious Gentleman in the Ijle ofWight^ 

 who has obferv'd the going out of a Ship, 

 crofs the Seas to the Coafts of France 5 that 

 after it had been a confiderable Time, has 

 vanifli'd by degrees, and has yet been part of 

 her vifible, even to the Main-top-Sails : And 

 this he view'd from the Top of fome of the 

 higheft Hills in that Ifland. And it is af* 

 firm'd that Sefojiris King of £gyp^ and 

 after him Darius^ would have cut the Earth, 

 and join'd the Vihs and the Red-Sea toge- 

 ther 5 but finding the Red-Sea higher than 

 the Land oi^gypt^ they gave over their En- 



terprize. 



