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fo many countries bear of having fuffercd fome mighty (liock 

 from the fouth; and the very figures of the great continents, 

 fliarpened towards the fouth, where they are waflicd by the 

 louthcrn cx:ean, are fo niany grand fafts concurring to give 

 probability to that funpofition. The waters from the central 

 abyfles of the globe might burft forth to complete the cata- 

 ftrophe. In their progrefs northward, and in their retroeof- 

 fion, the waters of the deluge mull have greatly broken, ra- 

 vaged and tranfpofed the fuperficial ftrata of the earth : many 

 of the mountains were broken down to powder, and crther 

 inconfiderable fragments : the beds of the Euxinc anJ Caf- 

 pian feas might be then feooped out : bafaltic rocks and beds 

 of coal mioht be formed : a confufion in the arrangement of 

 the exterior ftrata of fecondary and primary rocks would be 

 here and there produced : all terreftrial animals, fave fucli 

 as were preferved by fupernatural means, muft have ncceffa- 

 rily periflied. Every rational inference from prefent appear- 

 ances entirely coincides with tlic Mofaic hiftory of the de- 

 lugf". — This is the fubftanee of the fccond of thefe Elfays. 



In the third Etlay it is ftated, that, befide effetting fo manv 

 important and immediate chanrres on the exterior ftrata of 

 the globe, the dclu<re, likewife, became the remote caufe of 

 various great convulfions, which were at iubfequent times to 

 enfue upon its parts at dillerent places of the furface : that 

 the total feparation of Afia from America, the coarilatioti 

 of the Baltic, the opening of the Thracian Boiphorus, and 

 the difruption of the ifthmus which once divided the At- 

 lantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea, the entire fepara- 

 tion of Great Britain from the continent, and various other 

 fimilar alterations arc to be numbered amono; thofe o-rcat 

 changes poftcrior to the deluge, for which the deluge had, 

 however, prepared the fupertlcial ftrata of the globe : that all 

 thefe changes muft have been aceomplithed chiefly by extra- 

 ordinary agitations of the waters of the ocean, and at the 

 diflance of at leaft three ihoufand fix hundred years from llie 

 piefent time. 



The fourth EiTav cx{)l,iins the phenomena o^ la p'uViJic allot! . 

 Stones confifl of eartlis couglonicraled. A lump of any earth 

 ot vvliich tlie parts, tliough colicring, are diviuble merely by 



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