the fca were thrown up, and the mountains 

 and hills were formed. 



As we are informed by the fcripture re- 

 cords, " That all the high hills that were un- 

 c der the whole heavens were covered with 

 c water," we may conclude, that the con- 

 vulfion was univerfal. The effects of which 

 are evidently feen over the whole univerfe to 

 this day. And although we had no authen- 

 tic record of the deluge, there is not a more 

 natural way of accounting for the prefent fi- 

 tuation of the globe. 



The following extradls will, in part, fup- 

 port thefe obfervations. 



Theory of the Earth, >page 58. " We are 

 " now to conclude, that the land on which 

 " we dwell had been elevated from a lower 

 " fituation, by the fame agent which had 

 been employed in confolidating the ftrata, 

 in giving them liability, and preparing 

 them for the purpofe of the living world. 

 " This agent is matter extracted from ex- 

 " treme heat, and expanded with amazing 

 " force.. If this has been the cafe, it will be 

 " reafonable to exped, that fome of the ex> 

 1 panded matter inight be found condenced 

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