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dent 5 for it is feldorae found on the open fiirfaceof the 
grounds unlefi brought thither by an accident fince the 
Flood, efpecially in cultivated places ; feeing that the cor - 
ruption of vegetables and other creatures have in the long 
trad: of time begotten a ntw furface, heightened in fbme 
places above afoot, in others more or lefs* And this I 
have often obferved, and is eafily demonftrable to the eye 
in every Tin-vi^ork. 
5. When all theft wayes have been attempted for find* 
ing shoad^ if we find any, it makes us proceed with the 
greater confidence, having an aflhranceof a Loads but in 
cafe we find not any^ then we mull: go by guefs. And here 
isall the difference as yet between finding and not finding 
shoad. For in the next place we fink down about the foot 
or bottom of the Hill an EJfay-.hatch ('an orifice made for 
the fearchofa vein^about ^ foot long and four foot broad) 
as deep zsiho. shelf ^ And it is obfervable^ they are always 
to be as deep as the Shelf for this reafDn5that otherways you 
may comefliort of the shoad: But if we meet with none 
before^ or when we come to iht shelf ox Fafi^ Countrcf^ 
there is none to be expefted ^ yet fome times the shoad is 
wafh'd away cleattj when you come within 2 or 3 foot from 
th^Load^^nd then thel<?^iiisa foot or two farther upio the 
Hill. If we find any shoadmtlm fixCt.Ej/ajfJjateh, our cer^ 
tainty is either encreafed if any Shoad were found before 5 
ijir begun- Neither doth it add a little to make a right cons 
jefturcj how high up the Hill, or faroff^the Load^ Sfrmg^. 
or Bonny is, carefully tomarkhow deep from the furfase 
of the Earth our shoad X\t%x for this is held an infallibk 
Rule^ thatthe nigher the ShoddX\Q%i^\\i^.skelft\i^ nigher 
the Load is at hand^ ^ viee versa, . 
6, Albeit we finde no «S^^^^j/ in this.fiiftl^iifr/^5 havi^; 
found lome before by the vvays aforeaBentionedj or having 
found nonCj we are not fas yet ) altogether difcouraged^s . 
but afcend commonly about 1 2 fathom^aod fink a 2d Hutch^ 
a5-tbe former ; And in cale none appear in thi% we g.othea. 
as many fathom on each hand at the fame height 3 and fink 
there as before^ and fo afcend propprtionably wich 3 or 
