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, ieveral other Places on the Mountains of rvales and Scotland. But ' 
Vis to be obferv’d, that as it is not one Spring that makes any con- 
fiderable Brook, much lefs. a large River ^ To no Rivulet carries 
the Name of the River it flows into, to the Fountain Head ; the 
Names the Rivers are diftinguilh’d by, being given to the Conflu- 
ence of divers Rivulets in the Lower Valleys ; where if they form » 
a Lake, as they very often do, that Lake is moft commonly, not> 
to fay always, denominated from the River*, and not, as fomc' 
contend, the Rivers from their Lakes. The realbn of which is, 
that the Inhabitants on the Rivers, found it neceflary to give 
them Names, more early than to the Mountain Lakes, which at 
the firft Peopling of a Country, were known comparatively but to 
■ very few. 
. But the molt Remarkable Place our Author mentions for Springs, 
istheTown of F/w/j, which he fays is thence denominated ^ the 
Word Firm fignifying a River in the Grlfon Language. About half 
a Mile out of Town, there are moR clear Springs, v hich break* 
forth at the Foot of the Mountain, which Immediately conftitute 
Rapid Streams, and in the Village it fdf are reckon’d thirteen ^ 
where the Waters gufli forthwith a fort of noife, in Rivulets 
from half a Foot to two Foot broad. Some ofthefe are Tempo- 
rary, which the Inhabitants aferibe to the melted Ice and Snow ^ 
others Perennial, fupplied from the Great HyarophyUaa in the 
Bowels of the Mountain. The molf confiderable or theft* Foun- 
tains is call’d the quafi Garges-j which is a Perennial one, 
and of it felt ferves to turn a Mill. Another place is call’d Fur- 
where four Rivulets fpring within the Diftance of eleven 
Feet, lly Da'vos is alfo a Temporary Spring, but nothing fo cold 
as the reft, whoever would be Curious (lays he) to tract out the 
frjl Sources of thefe Fountains, in the very Borocls of the Earth, may 
receive fome Light if he confiders that the Town is ftuated at the 
Foot of r/;eOBBR ALP, which Mountain is not generally they 
are in the rais'd to a jharp Ridge', but composed of exceeding 
'broad Rockj-, fueh as have no Fiffures, hut are continued, after the 
manner of Jlembitk- He compares it, he fays, to an Alembick ; 
becaufe he is fully perfwaded, that this Phenomenon ought to be con- 
ceiv’din the fame manner, as DiftilHtion is commonly and eafily 
explain d: vii.> that there are Aqueous Vapours rais’d in great 
plenty from the deep Bowels of the Mountain, to the Top, by 
means of Subterraneous Heat ; and that they are (quoad minimam 
tatrtem') exhald into Air j which meeting with the Rocks lliuc on 
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