Fart IV. of the Earth 



the Water does not difturb and remove 

 that metalliqk or mineral Matter which 

 lyes in the Strata in great plenty, and 

 fo is there ready collefted to the hand 

 of Man : but only that which needs 

 luch an Agent to coIlcQ: it : r^^^ whicli 

 is fo {paringly and difperfedly inter- 

 mix'd with the common Terreftrial 

 Matter, as not to be difcoverabie by 

 humane Induftry, or, if difcoverable, 

 ib diffufed and Icattered amongft the 

 crafler and more unprofitable Matter, 

 that 'twould never be poffible to fe« 

 parate and extrad it : or, if 'twas, it 

 ^ould not defray the Chairge and Lai- 

 hour of the Extraction, and therefore 

 mufl: needs have been all irretrievably 

 loft, and ulelefs to Mankind, was it 

 not here by this means collecled and 

 brought into one Mais. 



That therefore the Meta lis and Mi- 

 nerals which are lodged in the per- 

 pendicular Inter'ualls of the Strata^ do 

 ftill grow^ ( to rpeak in the MiheraUfts 

 phrafe ) or receive additional Encreafc 

 from the Corpufcles which are yet dai- 

 ly Born along with the Water into 

 them: and have ^grown fo ever fince 

 the time of the Deluge, in all Rich pla- 

 ces wh^re thofe Intervalis aire not a:i- 



O 2 * ■ ready 



