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by this means rifes above its Levell , yet it does never tm om 
at the top of the Pipe* Having laid this, he anfwers to the o* 
ther Arguments, commonly alledged to maintain this Opinion. 
3. He pretends , that Rivers proceed from a CoUuvies or 
Kendevofis of Rain-waters, and that, as the Water, that falls upon 
f///// , gathers more eafily together, than that which falls in 
therefore it is , that Rivers ordinarily take their Source from HiHs. 
Thence alfo comes it ( faies he ) that there are more R'mrs^ than 
Torrents , in the Tmfeme Zones ; and , on the contrary , more 
Torrents, ih&n Rivers^ in thcTerrid Zene : For, as in hot Ciimats 
the Mountains are far higher , the Water , tliat defcends from them 
with impetuofiiy , runs away in a little while , and formes fucti 
CollcAions of Water , as foon dry up • but in cold Ciimats , the 
Waters do not run away but (lowly , and are renewed and re- 
cruited by Rain j before thty are quite dryed up ; becaufe the 
Hills are thcr€ tower , and fo the Bed of Rivers hath leffe de- 
clivity. 
Having thusdifcourfed of Rivers in GemrM, he treats of the iV//<? 
in f articular and there 
i» ObferVcs, That the Order of the S^afons of the Year Is quite 
inverted under the T orrid Zcne^ Tor , whereas it (hould be then 
Summer , when the Sun is near ; and Winter , when the Sun i& 
farther off: Under the Torrid Zone never leffe hoc, than when 
the Sun is neareft^ nor more hot, than when the SuU is farthed 
off: So that to the people that live between the ^qmmeHal and 
the T ropiekj , Summer begins about Chrifimafs , and their Winter , 
about St. fehns day. The reafon whereof is , {faith he) that 
when the Sun is dircSIy over their Heads ^ it raifes abundarice of 
vapors, and draws them fo high , that they are prefently conver- 
ted into Water by the coldneffe of the Air^ whence it comes to 
pafTe, that then it rains continually^ which does refreOi the Air^ 
but when the Sun is farther off , there falls no more rain, and fo the 
Heat becomes infupportable, 
2t He proves by many recent Relations , that the Sources ot 
the Nile are oa this fide of the ty^quimaid in t^Ethiopia-^ of 
which he gives a very accume Mappe , correding many faults 
which Geographers are wont to commit in the Defcription of the 
Kingdom of the Atjfm , which they believe to be much greater 
than indeed it is. 
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