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(the poLir regions having been never founded, particularly the 

 Antartic) but from a Arid application of the theory of tides to the 

 height to which they are known to rife in the main ocean, demon- 

 flratcs that a deptli, reaching only to half a league, or even two 

 or three leagues, is incompatible with the Newtonian theory, as 

 no depth under four leagues could reconcile it with the phoeno- 

 mena * — The vindication of the Mofaic hiflory does not require 

 near fo much. The extent of the fea is known to be far greater 

 than Keil fuppofed, that of the earth fcarcely paffing -^ of the 

 furface of the globe. 



The poflibility and reality of the deluge being thus eftabliflied, 

 I fliall next endeavour to trace its origin, progrefs, and ftill per- 

 manent confequences. That it originated in and proceeded from 

 the great fouthern ocean below the equator, and thence rufhed 

 on the northern hemifphere, I take to be a natural inference 

 from the following fads : 



I ft, The fouthern ocean is the grcateft colledion of waters 

 on the face of the globe. 



2d, In the northern latitudes beyond 45*^ and 55° we find 

 the animal fpoils of the fouthern countries, and the marine exuviae 

 of the fouthern feas, but in the fouthern latitudes we find no 



remains 



* Mem. Paris, iT]6. 



