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terreftrium denfitatis partem adaequarer, nec fibi ipfi 
diverts tcmporibus fimilis obfervaretur, vaporibus 
idis omni alio adminiculo deftitutis. 
Malta funt & alia ratiocinia phyfica, quibus noftra 
de atmofphaera iunari opinio fulciri poflTet : fed aftro- 
nomice tantum^ non phyf ce, rem difcutiendam fufcepi- 
mus. Ledlorem fatis in hujus operis decurfu diftinu- 
ifle mihi vifus fum : huic itaque finem impono, illu- 
ftrilTimae Societatis in re tarn ancipiti judicium pro 
ipfiffima rei veritate libentiffime amplexurus. 
IV* A Narrative of an extraordhiarj Sinking 
down and Sliding away of feme Ground at 
Pardines near Auvergne, fent from JM. T — - 
to a Relation in England, tranjlated from 
the French, and communicated to the kt, 
Society hy Phil. Henry Zollman, Efq^ 
R R. S. 
T he Parifti of Sardines, in the Diftridl of 
JJfoire (ya Auvergne') fituate about a League 
from the Town of Ijjoire on the Road to Clermont-, 
almoft on the Top of a pretty fteep Hill. 
This Parifh confifts of two Villages or Hamlets 
diftant from each other about 200 Paces j the one, 
which is called Le Fort, in which is the Parifh 
Church, and Part of the Houfes of the Inhabitants, 
hands upon a Rock 5 there appear the Remains of an 
antient Fortification, with which fome Houfes were 
furrounded in the time of the Wars. 
The 
