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Chapter XXII. 
Adaptations of the Earth to afford supplies of 
water through the medium of Springs. 
As the presence of water is essential both to 
animal and vegetable existence, the adjustment 
of the Earth s surface to supply this necessary 
fluid, in due proportion to the demand, affords 
one of the many proofs of Design, which arise out 
of the investigation of its actual condition, and of 
its relations to the organized beings which are 
placed upon it. 
to say anything of them : without the use of these we could have 
nothing of culture or civility: no Tillage or Agriculture: no 
Reaping or Mowing; no Ploughing or Digging; no Pruning or 
Loping ; no Grafting or Insition ; no mechanical Arts or Trades ; 
no Vessels or Utensils of Household-stuflF ; no convenient Houses 
or Edifices ; no Shipping or Navigation. What a kind of bar- 
barous and sordid life we must necessarily have lived, the In- 
dians in the Northern part of America are a clear demonstration. 
Only It IS remarkable that those which are of most frequent and 
necessary use, as Iron, Brass and Lead, are the most common 
and plentiful : others that are more rare, may better be spared, 
yet are they thereby qualified to be made the common measure 
and standard of the value of all other commodities, and so to 
serve for Coin or Money, to which use they have been employed 
by all civil Nations in all Ages.” Ray’s Wisdom of God in the 
Creation. Pt. i. 5th ed. 1709, p. IJO. 
