A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble
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ground, yet the water will still moue forwarde from (_C_) to
(_B_) because the water that followes, pusheth forwarde that, that runnes afore. Which answere will stand, when a good cause may bee shewed, which forcibly driueth the water from the Sea vnto (_C_) and out of the fountaine (_C_;) considering that (after this supposition) they lie both in the same circular superficies. Wherefore seeing, wee cannot without any inconueniency suppose it to moue by any of these lines either streight as (_BC_) or (_BD_,) or circular as (_BWC_) let vs enquire farther. The most likely opinion is, that the motion of the water is mixt neither directly streight, or circular, but partly one, partly the other. Or if it be circular, it is in a circle whose center is a little distant from the Center of the whole globe. Let vs place fountaines then neither in (_C_) nor (_D_) but in (_F_) I say the water runnes either partly streight by the (_FS_) and partly circular, from (_S_) to (_B_) which motion will not be inconuenient, for the water descending continually from (_F_) to (_S_) will cause it still to runne forward; or else wholy circular in the circle (_FXB_.) And this is most agreeable to truth. For so it shall both runne round as it must doe if wee will escape the otherwise vnauoidable inconueniences of the first opinion and yet in running still descend, and come neerer to the Center, as is most befitting the nature of water, so that wee need not seeke for any violent cause that moues it. Let vs then see what is the hight of (_F_) the fountaines of _Nilus_, aboue (_C_) that is (_B_) the mouth or outlet of it into the Sea. The vsuall allowance in watercourses is one foot in descent for 200. foot in running, but if this bee thought to much because water |
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