4§ (ECONOMY 
from producing fuch an effedt, that on the 
contrary they give a more pleafing afpedt, as 
well as great advantages* For thus the terre- 
firial fuperficies is larger * different kinds of 
plants thrive better, and are more eafily wa- 
tered, and the rain-waters run in continual 
Breams into the fea, not to mention many 
other ufes in relation to winds, heat and cold* 
Alps are the higheft mountains, that reach 
to the fecond region of the air, where trees 
cannot grow eredt. The higher thefe Alps 
are, the colder they are cateris paribus. Hence 
the Alps in Sweden, Siberia, Swifferland, Peru, 
Brafil, Armenia, Afia, Africa, are perpetually 
covered with fnow * which becomes almoft as 
hard as ice. But, if by chance the fummer 
heats be greater than ordinary, fome part of 
thefe ftores melts, and runs through rivers 
into the lower regions* which by this means 
are much refrefhed. 
It is fcarcely to be doubted, but that the 
rocks and Bones difperfed over the globe were 
formed originally in, and from the earth *, but 
when torrents of rain have foftened, as they 
eafily do, the foluble earth, and carried it 
down into the lower parts, we imagine it hap-* 
pens that thefe folid, and heavy bodies, being 
laid 
