86 r^^ Wisdom of GOD Patt I. 



to Garcias's Opinion, which may be feen in Ciu-^ 

 Jjus. Farther, I do believe, that in the great 

 Depths of the Sea, there grow no Plants at all, 

 the Bottom being too remote from the External 

 Air, which though it may pierce the Water fo 

 low, yet I doubt whether in Quantity fufficient 

 for the Vegetation of Plants: Nay, we are told. 

 That in thofe deep and bottomlefs Seas there are 

 BO Fifh at alh yet, not becaufe there are no 

 Plants, or Infeds, to feed them, for that they 

 can live upon Water alone, Rojtdeletiuss Expe- 

 riment about keeping them in a Glafs doth un- 

 deniably prove, but becaufe their Spawn would 

 be loft in thofe Seas, the Bottom being too cold 

 for it to quicken there, or rather becaufe being 

 lighter than the Water there, it would not fmk 

 to the Bottom, but be buoy'd up by it, and car- 

 ried away to the Shallows. 



Again, The great Ufe and Convenience, the 

 Beauty and Variety of fo many Springs and 

 Fountains, fo many Brooks and Rivers, fo many 

 Lakes and ftanding Pools of Water, and thefe 

 fo fcatter'd and difpers'd all the Earth over, that 

 BO great Part of it is deftitute of them, without 

 which it muft, without a Supply otherways, be 

 defolate and void of Inhabitants, afford abun- 

 dant Arguments of Wifdom and Council: That 

 Springs fnould break forth on the Sides of Moun- 

 tains moft remote from the Sea : That there 

 fhould Way be made for Rivers thro' Straits 

 and Rocks, and fubterraneous Vaults, fo that 

 one would think that Nature had cut a Way 

 on Purpofe to derive the Water, which elfe 



would 



