I the Natural Hiftory Part IV, 



Tart 3. lar Inter valls bears thither along 

 foni: ^^^^ moveable Matter as oc- 



currs in thofb Pores, io niuch tlje igme 

 manner as does the Water which ari- 

 jfes out of the Abyf?; with this only 

 difference, that tkp^ paljes and pervades 

 none but the fuperficial apcj uppermoft 

 Stratay whereas the Qther permeates al- 

 fp thole which lye lower apd deeper. 



That the metailick and mjineral Cor- 

 pufcles, being thus conveyed into thefe 

 intervalls ; and the Water there ha- 

 ving more room and freer paflage than 

 before, whilft it only penetrated the 

 Pores of the Stone, it delerts the faid 

 Corpnicles, leaving them in thefelti- 

 tervalls ; ualeft it flqw forth with a 

 very rapid and precipitate Motion ; for 

 then it hurries them out along with it, 

 till its Motion becomes more languid 

 J.^I^Vi.&^nd remifs, when it quits and aban- 

 13. infra, dons them i% 



6. That by the Water, thus pafting 

 through the Stone to its perpendicular 

 Intervalls, was brought thither all the 

 metallick and mineral Matter which is 

 now lodged therein: as well that which 

 lyes only in an indigefted and confqled 

 (I vid. vag. Pile 11 , in which manner the far great-^ 

 i78.fupra. ^^^^ j^. fo^j^^^ particularly 



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