FIRST SCIENCE · THIRD CHAPTER · SIXTH SECTION
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The nature, benefits, and characteristics of the element of earth,
the quantity of its conditions, its being still and remaining firmly in its place, its preservation of its own particular parts,
its valleys, its mountains, the division of the terrestrial globe into two layers,
its being mapped following the discovery of the American Continent, the manner in which water sources emerge, and the formation of earthquakes are all explained with wisdom and sagacity in four points.