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water meeting together in the bowels of the 

 earth. 



It is probable it was at the univerfal de- 

 luge, when the whole world was convulfed, 

 and the internal parts of it feparated in fuch 

 a manner, that not only earthquakes, raifed 

 by fire and water in the bowels of the earth, 

 have an eafy communication from one quar- 

 ter of it to another, but likewife vapours a- 

 rifing both from fire and water. 



This may be one reafon, and I think a 

 flrong one, why the inhabitants fince the 

 flood do not live fo long as thofe before it, 

 that the whole world being convulfed, left 

 gulfs and many great cavities in the earth, 

 being all rent, which contrail and contain 

 many hurtful and noxious vapours ; and 

 thefe emitted through the crevices into the 

 air make it very xm wholefome for the inhabi- 

 tants : And thefe Sulphureous vapours often 

 raife tempefts in the air. 



This appears very plain, for the largeft 

 and higheft of thefe hills are *11 Shattered and 

 full of rents from top to bottom, the lie 

 being disjoined from one another ; and the 

 higher the hills, the more fhattered and open, 

 they are. 



