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tlic temporary regular onts^ inch as the fountains of die 
Loire in France, of Lambs-bourn in England.oi the Z^rch- 
nito^er Sea in Carniola, and divers others. Much lefs 
ftill thinks he that loch vaft perennial Jprings, as thofe of 
Willon>bndg in Staff or djhire, of the iSar^z^^ in Franc e, can 
come from rains j fincehe finds upon computation, that 
all the waters that fall near them for the fpace ol: a year 
in rains^ dews, &c. will not comparably amount to what 
iffues from them. For the better Calculation whereof, 
hefliews to what height r/3!/;^-n?^^^r will rife in a year in 
^Confervatory fitted tor that pur pofe communibus annis v 
and how many French Muids, Hogfheads and Gallons 
Englijh, will flow out of a ciibick inch bore, in 24 hours, 
in a year, &c. And then fhews that though it may be 
true f'what an Anonymous French Author affertsjthac 
more water falls in rains near thefountan head of the 
River Sein, than is needful! for the yearly expence of 
that River, yet it is not fo at WtUovcbridg^ or likely to 
be lo with the fountain head of the River SorguB,\y\i\ch 
2,sGaffendm tells us is navigable to the fpri?tgs which are 
its originai. Yet much lefs ftill can he imagin that all 
the rains, mzfts, dews, fnows, Sic* that fall upon the 
furface of the whole Earth for the fpace of a year, can 
fupply the vaft expence of allthe/?^WJ•in the World for 
the fame time: when the folga alone, according to 
the calculation of l{icciolus, pours forth as much water 
into the Cafpian Sq^z. in a years time; as will fuffice to 
cover or drown the whole Earth: and fo the River Ca" 
nada^ or oi St. Laurence in the Weft-Indies, And if thefe 
-either of them alone expend as much water in a year, as 
riall ther«/wj-, &c. feem capable offupplying; much 
' more fure will the Argyropotamus ot JR^o dela Plata doe it, 
^'%hich fays the fame I{icciolus is bigger than the Nile, 
'Ganges, and Euphrates, all put together ; its Mouthhe- 
•>ing 90 itiiles broad, and running with that violence into 
•■'the that it make§ it fr,efli 200 miles forward. Or if 
