Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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courſe of the Waters upwards very leaſurely, perſwadeth me
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more readily to believe that
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knoweth very well,
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that the Mouth of
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Fiume morto
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let into
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Serchio
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is hurtful: for
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by this he acknowledgeth that the Mouth towards the Sea doth
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in ſuch ſort drain the Countrey of the Waters, as that they be
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come very low; and therefore upon every little
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impetus
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the wa
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ters turn their courſe: And from the motions, being exceeding
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ſlow, is inferred, that the abundance of Sea-water that com
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is ſo much as is believed, and as
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tolotti
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hath ſaid what he promiſeth a
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bove, namely, that when the Windes blowing ſtrongly do ſtop
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up
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and not onely retard but turn the courſe up
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wards, the time being Rainy, and the Mouth of
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ſhut
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up, the Waves of the Sea paſſe over the Bank of
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; at
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that time, ſaith
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Signore Bartolotti,
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the Champain ſhall know the
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benefit of
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diſcharged into
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and the mouth A
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ſhall ſtand alwayes open; and
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may alwayes con
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ſtantly run out, as alſo the Rains and Rain-waters, although the
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hurtful Tempeſt ſhould laſt many dayes, &c. </
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all the Art conſiſts in this; for the benefit of thoſe Fields doth
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not depend on, or conſiſt in ſaying, that
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is alwayes
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open, and
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draineth continually; But all the buſi
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neſſe of profit lyeth and conſiſteth in maintaining the Waters
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low in thoſe Plaines, and thoſe Ditches, which ſhall never be ef
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fected whilſt the World ſtands, if you let
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into
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; but yet it may, by opening the mouth into the Sea: and
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ſo much reaſon and nature proveth, and (which importeth) Ex
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perience confirmeth.</
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was made to another Propoſition in the Letter which I writ to
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Father
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Franceſco,
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which prudently of it ſelf alone might ſerve
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to clear this whole buſineſſe. </
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>I ſaid in my Letter, That great
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account is to be made of every ſmall riſing and ebbing of the
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Waters neer to the Sea in
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Fiume morto,
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for that theſe riſings and
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fallings, although that they be ſmall neer to the Sea-ſide, yet ne
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vertheleſſe, they operate and are accompanied by notable riſings
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and fallings within Land, and far from the Sea-ſide, and I have
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declared by an example of
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Arno,
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in which a Land-flood falling,
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that made it increaſe above its ordinary height within
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Piſa
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ſix or
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ſeven Braces, that this height of the ſame Flood becometh ſtill
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leſſer, the neerer we approach to the Sea-coaſts. </
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ſaid River be raiſed hardly half a Brace; whereupon it neceſſ
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rily followeth, that if I ſhould return to the Sea-ſide, and not
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knowing any think of that which happeneth at
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Piſa,
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