Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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the Sea calm, the Air tranquil; ſuppoſe it to be young flood,
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and that in the term of five or ſix hours the water do riſe ten
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^{*} hand breadths and more; that riſe is not made by the firſt
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water, which was ſaid to be rarefied, but it is done by the
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ſion of new Water: Water of the ſame ſort with the former,
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of the ſame brackiſhneſs, of the ſame denſity, of the ſame
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weight: Ships,
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Simplicius,
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float therein as in the former,
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out drawing an hairs breadth more water; a Barrel of this ſecond
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doth not weigh one ſingle grain more or leſs than ſuch another
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quantity of the other, and retaineth the ſame coldneſs without
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the leaſt alteration: And it is, in a word, Water newly and
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bly entred by the Channels and Mouth of the ^{*}
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Lio.
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now, how and from whence it came thither. </
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hereabouts any Gulphs or Whirle pools in the bottom of the
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Sea, by which the Earth drinketh in and ſpueth out the Water,
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breathing as it were a great and monſtruous Whale? </
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be ſo, how comes it that the Water doth not flow in the ſpace of
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ſix hours in
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Ancona,
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Raguſa,
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Corfu,
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where the Tide is
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ry ſmall, and happly unobſervable? </
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pour new Water into an immoveable Veſſel, and to make that
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it riſe onely in one determinate part of it, and in other places
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not? </
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Gibraltar
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>And firſt tell me what ought to be the current of that Water,
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that entering at the Straights mouth, is carried in ſix hours to
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the remoteſt Creeks of the Mediterrane, at a diſtance of two
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or three thouſand Miles, and that returneth the ſame ſpace again
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in a like time at its going back? </
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at Sea? </
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Straights-mouth in a continual precipice of a vaſt accumulation of
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Waters, that entering in at a Channel but eight Mile, broad, is to
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give admittance to ſo much Water as in ſix hours over-floweth a
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tract of many hundred Miles broad, & thouſands in length? </
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Tygre, what Falcon runneth or flyeth with ſo much ſwiftneſs?
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rents run (nor can it be denied) the long-wayes of the Gulph, but
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ſo ſlowly, as that a Boat with Oars will out-go them, though
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deed not without defalking for their wanderings. </
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Water come in at the Straight, the other doubt yet remaineth,
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namely, how it cometh to flow here ſo high in a place ſo remote,
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without firſt riſing a like or greater height in the parts more
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cent? </
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of wit can ever find an anſwer to theſe Objections, nor
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quently to maintain the ſtability of the Earth againſt them,
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ing within the bounds of Nature.</
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