The Natural Hiftary Part III. 



it^ and, by their Interpofition betwixt 

 the Earth, and the Sun, skreen and 

 fence off the ardent Heat of it, which 

 would be otherwile uniupportable t 

 and are at laft returned down again in 

 copious and fruitful Showers to the 

 fcorched Earth; which, were it not 

 for this remarkably Providential Con- 

 trivance of Things, would have been 

 there perfeftly uninhabitable : laboui* 

 ed under an eternal Drought: and hais 

 been continually parched and burnt.' 



To this former Sedion I (hall add^ 

 by way of Appendix, 



A Differtation concerning the F/^jc 

 d^d Reflux of the Sea : and its other 

 Natural Motiom; with an Account Of 

 the Cmfe of thofe Motiom : as alfb of 

 the E^d and Vfe of them : and an En- 

 quiry touching the Cmfe of the Eblfifj^ 

 and Flowmgy and Ibme other unqonj^r 

 mon Vhoenomtna. of certain ^ 



A Difcourfe concerning the Sdtnt^ 

 of the SeA. 



A Difcourfe concerning Wmd : tht 

 Qriginy and Ufe of it in the Natural 

 World, 



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