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ta the Eaft into immenfe Plains, watered by fome of 
the mold conliderable Rivers in the known World, par- 
ricularly the River of Amazons and the Rio della 
Plata> which arife in the faid Mountains. 
To conclude, from what hath been hitherto faid, it 
appears evidently, that the Mountains of Swijfer - 
land are the higheft of Europe , and the great Store- 
lioufe, whence all the Countries around them are fup- 
plied with Water } conform to what the learned Lo - 
7 itus Glare anus hath long fince elegantly expreifed in 
the following Verfes. 
Prat ere a caput Europes hanc ejfe probabunt : 
/Eternis Alpes nivibus, juga Olympic a, quorum 
Porgitur in coelum caput , , & fub Tartar a venter : 
Et quod ad Auroram, Boream^Solemque cadent em 
Flumina perpetuo non deficientia curfu 
*1 arturit , ilia volant & in omnia membra re dun* 
. . ( dant , 
Ad Lephyrum & Libyen Rbodanus, Rhenana fa. 
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Vnda citat Bor earn, gelidus rot at Ifter ad Ear am 
• Virus aquas , Getico novas Hofpes © advena 
An i' n “w * ( POfltO . 
/ ytahos fileo, Jileo quos Italia accipit amneis 
Alpibus d nofir is , quaque alto d vertice montes 
Agmina difparibus fundunt latijfima Sulcis. 
Whether the Depths of the Sea correfpond with the 
Heights of Mountains, mull be left to future Obfer- 
vations. 
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