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out of the way : biit it being not fo much my bu/inefs to find the 
reafons of phcznomena^ as to give the Reader fuch hints as may 
lead his greater fagacity to do it ; I forbear faying more, isf manurn 
de tabula^ only advertiling him, that what has been faid of the 
Ifts may be indifferently applyed to the reft of the greater Rivers^- 
of which neither have I any thing more to add, but an unufual 
accident that happened to xhtCherwelh An. i 66^, which without 
one drop of rain, or any other vifible caufe here, but from great . 
and fudden (liowers that fell in Northampton- flnre^ fwelled to that 
vaft height, that in two hours time, not only the Medows were 
o're-flown, Magdalen College cellar drowned, and their raifed 
Water-walks coverM ; but the River Ifis driven back as far as Ivy^ 
Hinckseji, atleaft a mile from the confluence of the two Rivers, 
17. But amongft the many fmalleri?i7;«/e/5, perchance it may 
not be unworthy notice, (i.) That the two confiderable Rivers 
of Stour and Oiife., though but fmall here and running but little way 
in it, yet rife in this Countj ; the one at Swalclif^ which goes in- 
to the Severn Sea in the rreji ; and the other at Fritvpell^ whence 
it runs into the Sea between Lincoln-JljirezxiA Norfolk'm the eaft of 
England. And (2.) that the Fountain-heads of the River Rea 
lye for the moft part in a plain Country, having little more to feed 
them,than juft a declivity to facilitate their paflage ; which feems 
to argue, that all running waters owe not their continuance to 
rain and dews, collefted as they fay, on thefpungy tops of hills, 
and fent forth again fomwhere in the declivity. And fodo's t 
a fmall Spring at Ckydon^ that rifes in the ftreet on the fouth fide 
of the Town, which continues running all the year, but moft 
plentifully like the Scatebra of Tliny"^^ in the dryeft weather* 
to which adda Wellat £w'^/77?e, alfo of the Church, whofe 
Springs run loweft in the Winter feafon, and advance in the 
Summer remarkably higher ; as I am credibly informed from 
Lambourn in Berk-fiire, all the Springs in that Town moft con- 
ftantly do. But I decline all engagement in this great Contro- 
verfie concerning the origin of Springs, till my Travels have 
fupplyed me with more, and more certain evidences, as wellfo^ 
the one as other part of the queftion. 
1 8. That Land-fprings^ and fuch as run but once perhaps in 
many years, have their rife and continuance from plentiful 
f Nat. HiH. Ijh, 2. cap. 103. 
ers, 
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