Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-02-18
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If the philofophy of {. 4 saJleri5l,,'' be 70
limited as to hold 4 doubt Of the probable exf-
ence of a Salt Mountain doubt mua exit
whether he. can be informed, by rcaioe, Of moral
and natural canfes. The Subfcgiber fays-
ar fuch Mountain ever exlfed how does it happen
il mas not been melted down to- level win the FUR
" rounding earth before this, by the falling of rain Tor
f,cceIve ages have generally believed that water
would melt iar, and if am correct in that, there
" can certainly fall no rain the Mounain ellie it
" mutt have been RATED from the bowels OF the earth
6 by Tome conyuliion OF nature, within ihort time
PERKINS, indeed, TO make our late purehale complete
6 this may have been the cafe within the at twelve
months therefore think our Demos mal atkow-
H ledge one OF thoe things either that no ram falls on
Sc this mountain, it mutt have been OF but ihort
g Handing; il mutt be covered with Tome iubltancc
" nor psnetrable by wafer.
Wonderful geniusl And night Fay, ID turn,
If your head was NOT made OF wood or clay, il
mutt, at times, have contemplated on the great
ordeE ofnaturc, ant found wonders therein 6 eat
er than the Salt Mountsin: do premfFe, thar a
Salt Mountain utay exia where rains are great
and frequent, and never lor diminifhe5, tho
it BE- not covered by any iuofancs inpenetrabIe
by water.
If the Subfcriher in his infant days had afked
his grandmother, why the hills and mountains
were not all wahed level with the plains, ieeipg
tnat when ii rains, much Of the earth is walhed
away from all parts Of hole emnences; fhe
might poGibIy have thoughs that he was born o
fome empire, or that be was more pert than
honeh
We hnd that the mountains and hills all yieid
part of their fub9ance the large rains. which
is carried to the lowea plain or valley adjoip
ing, and vet We find no proof of real elimination,
even of the mott barren and pofus hills. NJ
doubt when the rain wsfhes along the vihhe
paris of the Salt Mountain, it takes with it its
proportion of that fubfance, but 70 where il is
finally carried, refer the Snbicrioer TO Mercury
for the Democrats do not rule the defines OF
men or mountains. But again, we cannot but
fuppofe that this Mountain IS incorporated with
the earth, and is apart or lump 10 the great chsin
Of nature, aud mutt BE- congenia with the courie
and order of her motions with the earth.
If were TO conjecture, in the tyle that 'be
Subscriber feens to do, would rather fuppoic
that the earthly mountains would walh level
mach fooner than the Salt Mountain for let me
tell the boy, that if he ihou.d take lump of
earth in It's natural fate, and the fame Gxe lump
OF lslt, think the earth would be waihcd away
much the fooneG by pouring water alike on each.
The Suhfcriber pretends to think that water muR
melt ials this is but lame hypothesis, tor falt
may remain in water and not difolve / have.
often diifolyed alum in water, and the next day
found clear and large Jumps of alum formed at
The bottom Of the water. | this moment reject
that may be writing againit fchool boy, OF
would FAY more on the fubjea
A DEMOCRAT.
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