SO BOOK OF NATURE LAID OPEN. 



But by this wise and beneficial arrangement, Ri- 

 vers being elevated at their head, in situations at a 

 distance and remote from the sea, are necessitated 

 to pass over a large tract of country, before they 

 lose themselves in the main, and following the course 

 of those numerous sunken beds made for them in 

 the vallies, they are at once confined within their 

 proper limits, and made to wind in many a length- 

 ened turn, to the more copious diffusion of their 

 benefits, than would have otherwise been the case ; 

 while their pliable nature renders them easily turned 

 aside as they glide along, to water those fields re- 

 moved at a small distance from their bunk?, or for 

 other purposes to which the ingenuity of man may 

 make them subservient. 



Mineral and Medicinal Waters, 



Are also amply provided by nature, and dispense 

 their salutary virtues in a variety of situations. 

 These are not so numerous as the other, but are 

 sufficiently so for the purposes to which they are 

 adapted ; for all men, and every living creature, 

 need food, but we have reason to be thankful that 

 all need not the aid of medicine. Many there are, 

 however, who stand in need of their beneficial in- 

 fluences, and many an invalid have they been the 

 means of restoring to renovated powers, and the 

 blessings of health. Like the pool of Bethesda, they 

 may be said to be of a healing nature ; but blessed 

 be the adorable Physician who has opened up these 



