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would fallfo faft, as to cover, each half quarter of 

 an Hour, my Glaffes with little drops ; (o that I 

 was neceflltated to wipe them fo often, and my 

 Paper on which I wrote my Obfervations would 

 immediately be fb wet with Dew, that it would 

 not bear Ink : By which it may be fuppos'd how 

 faft the Water gathers in thpfe mighty high 

 Ridges I but now nam'd. 



Thus is one part of the Vapours blown upon 

 the Land returnM by the Rivers into the Sea, 

 fronx whence they came ; another part by the 

 cool of the Night falls in Dews, or ehe in Rains, 

 again into the Sea before it reaches the Land, 

 which is by much the greateft part of the whole 

 V apours, becaufe of the great extent of the O- 

 cean, which the motion of the Wind does not 

 traverJe in a very long (pace of Time ; and this 

 is the Reafbn why the Rivers do not return fo 

 much into the Mediterranean, as is extracted in- 

 to Vapour, A third part falls on the Low- 

 Lands, and is the Pabulum of Plants, where yet 

 it does not reft, but is again exhaled in Vapour 

 by the action of the Sun, and is either carried 

 by the Winds to the Sea to fall in Rain or Dew 

 there, or elfe to the Mountains to be there 

 turn'd into Springs ^ and tho' this does not im- 

 mediately come to pafs, yet after fever al Vicif- 

 iicudes of rifmg in Vapour, and falling in Rain 

 or Pews, each Particle of the Water is at 

 length return 'd to the Sea from whence it came. 

 Add to this, that the Rain- waters after the Earth 

 is fully fated with rnoifture, does, by the Vailies 

 or lower parts of the Earth, find its way into 

 the Rivers, and fo is compendioufly fcnt back 

 to the Sea, After this manner is the Circula- 

 tion perform'd, and I doubt not but this Hypo- 



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