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Wit and Induflry of Man hath embelifli'd the 

 World. 



Thefe are great things, and worthy the Care 

 and Providence of the Creator; which whofo 

 confidereth, and doth not difcern and acknow- 

 ledge, muft needs be as ftupid as the Earth he 

 goes upon. 



But becaufe Mountains have been look'd upon 

 by fome as Warts, and fuperfiuous Excrefcen- 

 cies, of no Ufe or Benefit, nay, rather as Signs 

 and Proofs that the prefent Earth is notliing elfe 

 but a Heap of Rubbifh and Ruins, I ihall reduce 

 and demonftrate in Particulars the great Ufe, 

 Benefit, and NecefTity of them. 



I. They are of eminent Ufe for the Produdion 

 and Original of Springs and Rivers; without 

 Hills and Mountains there could be no fuch 

 things, or at leafl: but very few, no more than 

 we now find in plain and level Countries, that is, 

 fo few, that it was never my hap to fee one ; in 

 Winter-time indeed we might have Torrents 

 and Land-floods, and perhaps fomecimes great 

 Inundations; but in Summer nothing but ftag- 

 nating Water, referv'd in Pools and Cifterns, or 

 drawn up out of deep Wells; but as for a great 

 Part of the Earth (all lying within or near the 

 Tropicks) it would neither have Rivers, nor any 

 Rain at all ; we jQiould confequently lofe all thofe 

 Conveniences and Advantages that Rivers aftbrd 



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