( 470 ; 
all Water very deep, or rather that the whole Body of the 
Earth were Water, and that the Sun had his Diurnal 
courfe about it : I take it, that it would follow that the 
Air of it felf would imbibe a certain quantity of Aqueous 
Vapours, and retain them like Salts diflblved in Water ; 
that the Sun warming the Air and raifing a more plenti- 
ful Vapour from the Water in the day time , the Air 
would fuftain a greater proportion of Vapour, as warm 
Water will hold more diflblved Salts, which upon theab- 
fence of the Sun in the Nights would be all again dif- 
charged in Dews, Analogous to the precipitation of Salts 
on the cooling of the Liquors ; nor is it to be believed 
that in fuch cafe there would be any diverfity of Weather, 
other than periodically^ every year alike 5 the mixture of 
all Terreftrious, Saline, Heterogeneous Vapours being ta- 
ken away : which as they are yarioufly compounded and 
brought by the Winds feem .to be the caufes of thofe va~ 
rious Seafons which we now find. In this cafe the Airy 
regions every where at the fame height would be equally 
replenifhed with the proportion of Water it could contain, 
regard being only to be had to the different degree of 
warmth, from the nearnefs or diftance of the Sun and 
an Eternal Eaft Wind would blow all round the Globe, 
inclining only to the fame fide of the Eaft, as the Latitude 
doth from the Equator 5 as is obferved in the Ocean be- 
tween the Tropicks. 
Next, Let us fuppofe this Ocean interfperfed with 
wide and fpacious Trafts of Land, with high ridges of 
Mountains fiich as the Pyrenean, the Alps, the Apennine % 
the Carpathian in Europe^ Taurus, Caucafus, Imaus and 
feveral others in Ajia; Atlas and the Monies Lun£ % with 
other unknown Ridges in Africa, whence came the Nile^ 
theNigre, and the Zaire. And in America the Andes , 
and the Apalatean Mountains : each of which far furpafs 
ihe ufual height to which the Aqueous Vapours of them- 
fclves afcend, and on the tops of which the Air is fo cold 
and 
