TfeOttlGlM FONTWM Tentainen Philofophicum^ 
i^^m Fmlei^ioM hahita cpram^QcktnG Philofophica 
nuper Oxoni^i;y?f/i^/^m^Scienciam Nacuralem 
'^^'^prmdij^ndar/i:^.,^ Plot LL. Cu- 
' pdic£ MVS EI ASHMOLEANI Oxoni^ Fr<£- 
^^Jilum. iS' REGI/g SOCIETATIS Secretarium 
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iLlB. J^thor this Treatifey Oripne Fontium^ 
difliking theold way of handling this fubjeSl, a» 
top, jjeoeral aad remote has chofe rather to argue for 
both parts of tKe ^ejlzen, lirom thc.ifip^ory oifprings ; 
with intent more particuiarly to fatisfy his reader^ 
which firings they are, that wholy come from rains ^ 
mifts^ devpSy &c. which from the feas ; and which from 
both. In order hereunto (after a fhort Proem J He gives 
us a Scheme of the feveral /pedes of Jprings, to which he 
thinks all what ever may be reduced: and then pre- 
icntly determines that fuch intermitting fprings are 
profluent after rainsy and then gradually flacken, and 
^t lait are whpjy dryed u^^^^ Summer^doe 
certainly owe their birth to rains, KnA. not only fuch in- 
termitting ones, butfome perennial fprings too,fuch as we 
many times find on the tops of Mountains,which we may 
rather term weeping, than flowing or running fprings-, 
which feem to have their Origin from the mtfls wefo 
{reqjLiexitly fee Jianging upon the tops of hills. Yet He 
<iatiAot''igreeS With feveral worthy ^^/^Ae^r/ he there men- 
tions, and whofe Arguments he recites, that all fprings 
owe their origin to rainSy deTvs\ &c. For he thinks not 
that temporary irregular fountains (whereof he enume- 
rates many,^ can poffibly come from rains; muchlcfs 
