The Natural Hi (lory Part III. 



both of them is compiled and aJrfanged| 

 but in fuch manner, that the Ordinary 

 Surface of this Orb is not level with 

 that of the Ocean, nor at fo great a 

 diftance from the Center as that is, it 

 being for the moft part reftrained and 

 deprefled by the Strata of Earth lying 

 upon it ; but wherever thofe Strata are 

 broken, or fo lax and porole that Wa- 

 ter can pervade them, there the Water 

 of the faid Orb does afcend : fills up all 

 the Fiffures whereinto it can get Ad- 

 miiSon or Entrance : and faturates all 

 the Interftices and Pores of the Earth, 

 Stone, or other Matter, all round the 

 Globe, quite up to the kvel of the Sur-^ 

 face of the Ocean. 



That there is a perpetual and inceft 

 fant Circulation of Water in the Attno^ 

 Jphere : it arifing from the Globe in form 

 of Vafotir, and falling down again in 

 'Rain, Dew ^ Hatl^ and Snow. That 

 the quantity of Water thus rifing and 

 falling is equal \ as much returning 

 back in Rain, &c. to the whole terra- 

 queous Globe, as was exhaled from it 

 in Vapours : and reciprocally as much 

 mounting up again in Vapour as was 

 difcharged down in Rain. That tho' 

 the quantity of Water thus rifing and 



falling 



