STUDY IV. 



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" tains alfo of the Deep, and the windows of 

 *' Heaven, were flopped, and the rain from Hea- 

 *' ven was reftrained ; and the zvaters returned from 

 " off the Earth continually, and after the end of the 

 ^' hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.'* 



The agitation of thefe waters from fide to fide 

 continually, perfe6lly agrees to the motion of the 

 Seas, from the Line to the Poles, which muft then 

 have been performed without any obftacle, the 

 Globe being, on that occafion, entirely aquatic ; 

 and it being poffible to fuppofe that it's annual 

 balancing in the Ecliptic, of which the polar ices 

 are at once the moving powers and the counter- 

 poife, had degenerated, at that time, into a diur- 

 nal titubation, a confequence of it's firft motion. 

 Thefe waters retired, then, from the Ocean, when 

 they came to be converted a-new into ice upon the 

 Poles ; and it is worthy of remark, that the fpace 

 of a hundred and fifty days, which they took to 

 fix themfelves in their former ftation, is precifely 

 the time which each of the Poles annually cm- 

 ploys, to load itfelf with it's periodical conge- 

 lations. 



We find, befides, in the fequel of this hiftorical 

 account of the Deluge, expreflions analogous to 

 the fame caufes : " GOD faid again to Noah, 

 " while the Earth remaineth, feed time and har- 



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