ally towards the ^rr^^^j-, the Sun beams arc fo plain all 
night, that it iseafy to write and read by them. The 
uintipodes to Scotland he alEgns in the Term. Aufiralis 
near the Magellanic\Streights ^^nA. looks upon that to be 
the trueft divifion of the Country, by which it is divided 
intothtcQ Pemn/ula's. Hence he paffes to the Nia^z^r^?/ 
//?//(?ry,beginning is nature her felf doe s^with the four 
lements. He finds no burning Mountains ^ but yet there arc 
which iS';7io/?>^by day, and Flame by night, as alfo 
other igneous imprejjions. He tels us what iort oiJir is beft, 
what ufe or rather neceffity we have of it,accounts for the 
Spring oi it (roxxx its Nitr of aline ^2LnSy and becaufethey 
are hardly one hour without winds, looks upon the Scotch 
air to be more pure and wholfom than the Enghlh, the 
fweatingftchriejs never fo much as invading their borders. 
After having treated of water s being the univcrfal men" 
flruumy if not principle, defined and divided the Se(^^ and 
given us its properties of Saltnefs and motion, he relates 
fome various motions of the Scotch Sea s a particular vor-- 
/^;vr of which by the Or cades, incks in whatfoever comes 
within its circle. The inhabitants fling in empty veirels,or 
bundles of ftraw, and fo pals by without any danger, the 
Sea becoming plain as loon as it hath fvv allowed what was 
caft into it, which it again returns about a farther. 
He luppofes the bottom of the Sea to confift as the /uper^ 
yfaW of the Earth does, of Mountains and vallies, woods' 
and mines 5 whence amber, ambergrife, and whatfoever 
fubftance elfe the Sea cafts up, proceed. 
Teirtfying Fountains are found here, as alfo one that 
foretells fiormj, called the r(?z^^/w^ wellntsiV Edinborough, 
by fending forth a great noife from that fide of the F^un- 
tain which is oppofite to the quarter M^hence the Storm is 
toGome. 
Mineral waters are frequent, but no hot Springs, the de- 
fed: of which hefuppofes may be fupplyed by the external 
ufe of the water of il/^/i?^, and the bitumen of St, F^tha- 
* rines 
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