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tions it will appear, that even thefe 

 have their ufes : and that, although 

 they do make feme leffer Alterations irt 

 Ibme few Parts of the Earth, and 

 Ibmetimes moleft and inconamode the 

 Inhabitants of thofe Parts, yet the 

 Agent, whereby both the one and the 

 other is effefted, is of that indifpenfible 

 Nece/^tjt and Vfe both to the Earth it 

 felf, to Mankind, and to all other the 

 Prod unions of it, that they could not 

 fubfift without it. I have already gi- 

 ven fbme brief Intimations that l^Vi^ds 

 and Hurricanes at Land Tempejls and ""^^^^ 4* 

 Storms at Sea f, ( things that have al- f^f^^^^ 

 ways been looked upon with as evil an \Part i. 

 eye as Earthquakes, and pointed at as ^^^"^^^^ 

 only difaftrous and mifchievous to the 

 World ) are yet not without a very 

 neceflary and excellent Ufe : the lame 

 have I alfo done concerning Vulcano ^ i| 5 1] Pan ^. 

 but I muft not dwell upon theft things i. 

 too long, wherefore I fhali only now 

 difpatch what is further neceffary to 

 be hinted here about this Dtcrement 

 of Mountains, and then conclude this 

 Part. 



And thU^ as it does not make any 

 great Alteration, fo neither doth that, 

 which it really does make^ any ways 



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