#krt lft If the Earth: 13 J: 



It the Surface of the Earth : the reft, f 

 through the Tubes and VelTels of the | 

 Vegetables which gro vv there«n,Herbs, j 

 Shrubs, and Trees, and along with," 

 it a fort of vegetarive terreftr ial Mat- ■ 

 ter, which it detaches from e?jf the 

 lippermoft Strntum wherein thcie are 

 planted -, this it depofes in i hern, for 

 their Nutriment, as it pafles through 

 them f ; and iffuing out at the tops ^FiMct^. 

 and extremities of them, it marches 

 ftill on, and is eltvated up into the Jii 

 mo^here to fiich height that, the HeM 

 being there lefs, it becomes condenfed^ 

 unites and combines into final! MalTes 

 or Drops, and at length falls dowp 

 again in JR<*/», Dew, Haily or Smow^ 

 And for the other fart of the Watar, 

 uhich was condenled at the Surface 

 t)f the Earth, and lent forth colledivis* 

 ly into Stmdwg-Sprtngi and Rivers^ 

 this alio fuliains a Dtmtmtio» from the 

 Heat above, being evaporatedy more or 

 left, in proportion to the greater ot 

 lefler Intenftmfs of ti e Heat, and the 

 greater or lefler Extent of the Surface 

 of the Water fo Iciit forth 



That as thefe Evaporations are at 

 fome times greater , according to th<^ 

 g^reater hat of the Sm^ fb wherever they 



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