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us, ofFiftiing, Navigation, Carriage, driving of 

 Mills, Engines, and many others. This End of 

 Mountains I find affign'd by Mr. Edmund Hally^ 

 a Man of great Sagacity and deep Infight into 

 the Natures and Caufes of Things, in a Dif- 

 courle of his publifli'd in .the Philojhph, '^franf- 

 aBionSy Numb. 192. in thefe Woids: l^his, if 

 njoe may allow final Caufes [Hardime?it, the thing 

 is clear, pronounce boldly, without any Ifs or 

 ji?2ds] nisfeems to be one Defgnofthe Hills, that 

 their Ridges being placd through the midft of their 

 Continents, might ferve as it were fir Alembicks, 

 to d'fiilfrefj Water for the Ufe of Man and Beaji ; 

 and their Heights to give a Defcent ofthofe Strea?r.s ; 

 to run gently, like fo many Veins of the Microcofn, 

 to be the more beneficial to the Creation, 



II. They are of great Ufe for the Generation, 

 and convenient digging up of Metals and Mine- 

 rals; which how neceffary Inflruments they are 

 of Culture and Civility, I have before ihewn ; 

 thefe we fee are all digg'd out of Mountains, and 

 I doubt whether there is or can be any Genera- 

 tion of them in perfedly plain and level Coun- 

 tries j but if there be, yet could not fuch Mines, 

 without great Pains and Charges, if at all, be 

 wrought; the Delfs would be fo flown with 

 Waters (it being impoflible to make any ^^i/if^ 

 or Soughs to drain them) that no Gins or Ma- 

 chines could fufSce to lay and keep them dry. 



III. They 



