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              <pb o="191" file="0245" n="245" rhead="DE ARCHITEC. LIB. VIII."/>
            item profluentia ad occidentis oceanum, ibi{qúe} naſcuntur lchneumones,
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            Crocodili, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3825" xml:space="preserve">aliæ ſimiles beſtiarum piſcium{qúe} naturæ, præter Hippopo-
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            tamos. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3826" xml:space="preserve">Ergo cum omnia maxima flumina in orbis terr arum deſcriptioni
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            bus ab ſeptentrione uideantur profluere, Aphri{qúe} campi, quiſunt in meri
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            dianis partibus ſubiecti ſolis curſui, latentes penitus habeant humores,
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            nec fontes crebros, amnes{qúe} raros relinquitur, uti multo meliora inueni-
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            antur capita fontium, quæ ad ſeptentrionem aquilonemue ſpectant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3827" xml:space="preserve">niſiſi
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            inciderint in ſulphuro ſum locum, aut alumino ſum, ſeu bituminoſum-tunc
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            enim permutantur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3828" xml:space="preserve">aut calidæ aquæ, aut frigidæ odore malo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3829" xml:space="preserve">ſapo-
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            re profundunt fontes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3830" xml:space="preserve">Ne{qúe} enim calidæ aquæ est ulla proprietas, ſed fri
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            gida aqua cum incidit percurrens in ardentem locum, efferue ſcit, et per-
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            calefacta egreditur per uenas extra terram, ideo diutius non poteſt per-
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            manere, ſed breui ſpatio fit frigida. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3831" xml:space="preserve">Nanq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3832" xml:space="preserve">ſi naturaliter eſſet calida non
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            refriger aretur calor eius. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3833" xml:space="preserve">Sapor autem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3834" xml:space="preserve">odor, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3835" xml:space="preserve">color eius non reſti-
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            tuitur, quòd intinctus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3836" xml:space="preserve">commixtus est propter naturæ raritatem.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head178" xml:space="preserve">DE AQVIS CALIDIS, ET QVAS HABEANT
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          uires à diuerſis metallis prodeuntes, & de uariorum fonti
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          um, fluminum, lacuumq; natura.
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          CAPVT III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3838" xml:space="preserve">SVNT autem etiam nonnulli fontes calidi, ex quibus profluit aqua ſa
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            pore optimo, quæ in potione ita est ſuauis, uti nec fontanalis ab Ca-
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            mœnis, nec Martia ſaliens deſideretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3839" xml:space="preserve">Hæc autem ànatura perficiuntur
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            his rationibus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3840" xml:space="preserve">cum in imo per alumen, aut bitumen, ſeu ſulphur ignis ex-
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            citatur, ardore percandefacit terram, quæ est circa ſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3841" xml:space="preserve">Supra ſe autem
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            feruidum emittit in ſuperiora loca uaporem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3842" xml:space="preserve">ita ſi qui in his locis, qui
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            ſunt ſupra, fontes dulcis aquænaſcuntur, offenſieo uapore efferueſcunt
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            inter uenas, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3843" xml:space="preserve">ita profluunt incorrupto ſapore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3844" xml:space="preserve">Sunt etiam odore & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3845" xml:space="preserve">ſa-
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            pore non bono frigidi fontes, qui ab inferioribus locis penitus orti, per lo
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            ca ardentia tranſeunt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3846" xml:space="preserve">ab his per longum ſpatium terræ percurrentes
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            refrigerati perueniuntſupra terram, ſapore, odore, colore{qúe} corrupto,
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            utiin lyburtina uia flumen Albula, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3847" xml:space="preserve">in Ardeatino fontes frigidieodem
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            odore, qui ſulphurati dicuntur, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3848" xml:space="preserve">reliquis locis ſimilibus. </s>
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