"Concerning rivers, we find a scientific opinion which we fear will not pass muster with the learned of our own times. It appears that rivers are "engendered in the hollow concavities of the earth," and are derived from congealed air: to give us a lively idea of which engendering, Peter informs us that it is in the same manner "as we see the aire in winter nights to be melted into a pearlie dew, sticking on our glasse windowes.""
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Charles Dickens, "An Old Book of Geography" Household Words: A Weekly Journal (1854) Vol.9, p.75
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Peter Heylin
1599 – 1662
Peter Heylin (or Heylyn) (1599–1662) was an English ecclesiastic, newspaper publisher, geographer, and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts.
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