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would overflow and drown whole Countries : 

 That the Water pafling thro' the Veins of the 

 Earth, fliould be rendred fre{h and potable, 

 which it cannot be by any Percolations we can 

 make, but the Saline Particles will pafs through 

 a tenfold Filtre: That infome Places there fhould 

 fpring forth Metalick and Mineral Waters,* and 

 hot Baths, and thefe fo conftant and permanent 

 for many Ages; fo convenient for divers Medici- 

 nal Intentions and Ufes, the Caufes of which 

 Things, or the Means and Methods by which 

 they are perform'd, have not been as yet certainly 

 difcover'd; only in General, PAV^y's Remark may 

 be true, "l^ales funt aqu/e^ qiialis terra per quam 

 fuunt. Hence they are Cold, Hot, Sweet, Stink- 

 ing, Purgative, Diuretick, or Ferrugincous, Sa- 

 line, Petrefying, Bituminofe, Venenofe, ai:d of 

 other Qualities. 



Laftly, The Earth, which is the Bafis and 

 Support of all Animals and Plants, and affords 

 them the hard and folid Part of their Bodies, 

 yielding us Food and Suftenance, and partly alfo 

 Cloathing ; for I do not think that Water fupplies 

 Man, and other Animals, or even Plants them- 

 felves, with their Nouri(hment, but ferves chiefly 

 for a Vehicle to the Alimentary Particles, to con- 

 vey and diftribute them to the feveral Parts of the 

 Body. Water, as it exifts in the World, is not 

 a fimple unmix'd Body, but contains the Ter- 

 rellrial component Parts of the Bodies of Animals 

 and Plants : Simple Elementary Water nouriflies 

 iK)t at all. How varioully is the Surface of this 

 G 4' Earth 



