the mural Hipry Brtilfl 



exteriour or uppertnoft Strata^ whence 

 fome of it paffes on into Wellsy and intOi 

 &rGtts^ and ftagnates there, till 'tis by 

 degrees again exhaled : fom^ of it glicks 

 into the perpendicular Intervalls of the 

 iolid Stratit ; where y if there be no 

 Outlet or Pailage to the Surface, it ftag- 

 nates, as the other : but if there be 

 fuch Outlets, 'tis by them refunded 

 Ibrth together with the ordinary Wa- 

 m^iw fer of Springs and Rivers : and the reSt^ 

 ml > which, by reafon of the qompaftnefs 

 of the terreftrial Matter underneath, 

 pamiot make its way to Wells, the 

 perpendicular FifTures, or the likq 

 Exits ^ only faturates the uppermoft 

 Strata: and in time re^^^ou^ts Up agaiq 

 in Vapour into the Atmofphere. . 

 '■^^ That although Rmns do thus fall in- 

 to, and augment Springs and Rivers^ 

 yet neither the om nor the other do de- 

 , rive the Watqr, which they ordinari- 

 rily refund^ from Rains; notwith- 

 ftanding what very many Learned 

 Men have believed. 



That Springs and Rivers do not pro- 

 ceed from Vafours railed out of 6he Sea 

 by the Sun, borne thence by Winds 

 unto Momtains^ and there condenfed, 

 as a modern ingenious Writer is of 

 Opioiono That 



