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_ ftand with an yce ac midfummer, 
* 3. abour the 
beginning of 
Tune. 
~ fhowres the flouds that overflowed the fields, deftroied all the corne upon the ground, The like 
*or Galatians, 
The one andchirtieth Rooke 
thereis the fame reafon of che haven andthe towne it felfe;At Athens, the great and famous G 
fountaine named Enneacrunos, in arainie and ftormiefummer, iscolder than the pit-water or. 
well in /xpsters garden, within that citie ; and yer the {aid well-water, if it bee adrie feafon, will 
10.2 Cuar. rrr. Tate 
e& The reafon of certaine waters that appeare and be hidden 
againe (odainly, | 
Veaboveall others, the waters of pits or wells be ordinarily moft cold about the* retreat 
or occultation of Aréturus: yea and many times they doe faile inthe midsof fummer: and 
all of them in manner grow verie low for the {pace of foure daiesat the time ofthe ferting 
of the forefaid ftar.Many there be which have little or no water in them all winter long,& name- 
ly, about the hill Olympus, where it is {pring firft, ere the waters returne and find the way into 
their pits . And verely in Sicilia, about the citties Meflana and Mylz, during winter,the {prings 
are alrogither dri¢ sbut in fummertime they run over the brinks of their.wels and pits,and main- 
taine pretie rivers, At Apollonia, a citie in Pontus, there is a fen neare the fea fide which in fume | 
mier onely overfloweth, and efpecially about therifing of the great Dog ftar; mary if the fum- 
met be colder than ordinarie; itis not fo free and plentifull of water.Some {prings have this qua- 
hitie with them, To be drier for fhowres and raine water ¢ as for example, in the territorie of Nar- 
nia, a citic inthe duchie of Spoleto; which 01. Kaevo hath not forgotten toinfert amongother 
admirable things in his treatife of VWWoonders: for of this terrirorie hee writeth inthefe tearms, —_ 
That ina drought it was durtie, and in rainie weather duftie. Moreover, this is tobe noted, That 
all waters are ordinarily in winter more {weet than in fummer, but in autumne leat of all sand in 
a drie feafon,lefle than at other times, Neither are the river waters moft times of like taft,by rea- 
fon of the great difference that is in their chanels: for commonly the water is {uch asthe earth 
and foile through which it paffeth, and doth participat the qualitie and taftof thofe hearbs al- 
waies which it wafheth and runneth by. No marveile therefore, if the water of one and the {elfe- 
fame river be found in one place more unholefome and daungerous than in another. It falleth 
out many times that the brooks and rills which enter into great rivers, do alter their waterin the _ 
verie taft(as we may fee by experience in the famous river Boryfthenes;)in fo much asfuch great K_ 
rivers be overcome with the influence of fuch riverets, andeither their owne taft is delaied by = 
them, orcleane drowned and loft. And fome rivers there bee, which chaunge by occafion of 
raine :the proofe whereof was thrice feene in Bofphorus, when by reafon of the fall of fome fale 
alfo happened as often in A.gypt; forthe raine that fell, caufed allthe wathes anfing from the 
river Nilus which watered the grounds, tobe bitter, whereupon enfued a great plague and pe- 
ftilence to the whole region, Lt chanceth many times, that prefently upon the cutting and ftoc- 
king up of woods, there arife and {pring certaine fountains, which betoretime appeared not, but 
werefpent in the nourifhmentof the tree-roots : as it fell outin the mountaine Hamus,when as 
Caffander held the * Gallogreeks befieged : for when the woods thereupon were cut downe to 
make a palaifadfor a rampier, fodainly there iflued foorth fprings of waterin their place, More- 
over, it hath been oftentimes knowne, that by occafion of fpoiling fome hills of the wood grow- 
ing thercupon, the fprings have met all togither in one ftreame,and done much hurt in fodaine 
overflowing the vale beneath ; whereas the trees beforetime had woont todrinke up, digeft, and 
confume all the moifture and wet that fell, and fed the faid waters. And verely it availeth much 
for the maintenance of water, to ftirre with the plough, and totill a ground; thereby to breake 
up.and loofe the uppermoft callofitie and hyde (as it were) of the earth, thatkept itclunged and 
bound. Certes, it ts recorded fora truth,that upon the rafing and deftroying of Arcadia(a town 
focalledin Creete) whereby the place was difpeopled, all the fountains waxed drie, and the ri- 
vers in that tract (which were many) came to nothing : but fix yeeres after, when thefaid towne 
was reédified, even asthe inhabitants fell to earing and ploughing any grounds within theirter- 
ritorie, the forefaid fountains appeared againe, and the rivers returned to their formercourle, 
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