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churches, in order to implore the Almighty to fend down fome 
fhowers of rain to refrelh the fruits of the earth, which are al- 
hwe^OT? 1 X rTff ty the exceffive drought which has raged 
the we rh COnl ‘ derab ' e dme:” which fhews that as inconftant as 
wTd, a' “ Wmds ma ^ be ’ ths Ataofphere may be overloaded 
tU ' e !I ? one P ace > an d greatly deftitute for fome months 
m, 7 7 7 Pl r Ce " 0t VWy di&nt ’ the Pl“<y of rain here, 
it feems, had made a fcarcity in Italy, and there cannot be a re- 
1 aucy in one climate without occafioning the reverfe in another * 
one determined quantity of moifture is indeed allotted by the srreat 
dirtnbutor of all things, who created his bleffings b/fcale^nd 
feems^otm V ^ 1 “ them ° ut t0 us in P Ie nty OT fcarcity, as it 
retentive a > ^ eitber t0 P r °fp er or corred us ; parfimonious and 
o ano her h T T™a° “ * &ft fi S ht > to de part, over-liberal 
whole h ’ b rea y Juft ’ graClous > and invariably beneficent to the 
CHAP. III. 
Of Waters m general , and thofe of Cornwall in particular. 
W A JA* h ° W 7 er att f nuated difguifed, is Water Hill, sect. i. 
kind • confluenri^^n 8 though of the moft moveable 
down to he noft TT*™ ° f *“* ^ ftom tbe ocean 
Sr- w «». X 
the folids as welT^Tfl j° glVe fp r * n g and motion to sect. ii. 
liquids whLl b ui ‘ s °f a d bodies, fo is Water to renew the Water "> 
Kp^t wo r ^ e l PetUal ! y ^ theil ' P' ace > a " d without con- — 
Water f S P therefore dlfner/ J 1° ^ depalt . ftom ’ meer dull, 
maintain the coherencTrf throughout the univerfe, in order to 
the afeendency of Fire which - b ° dles > %% wafte > and prevent 
it, would parch and reduce 11 bod ‘° ° PP f “ d ***** 
Particles nf W «. bodies to a calx, to afhes, or cinders. 
This fia Ur e i nf lp j ^ ^ S er j cra by allowed to be round as to figure. 
fluidity 15 All eed ls not to be demonftrated, but is inferred from its 
fluidity m A ft T ng m the , figU - re ° f Watr y Proles to be round, 
piracies , for take any mafs of round bodies, 
= Not the effect of fire 
as fome philofophers have lately held. 
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