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and the edges of the fhell in the mud, are as clofe, as if the fi/li 
were alive; yet neverthelefs the mud or clay will by degrees infi- 
nuate itfelf and fill the fame 5 and now, if the bottom of any one 
of the faid rivers or ponds was raifed by an earthquake, and by 
petrefying Efiuvia turn'd into ftone, they would be found ex- 
a6lly correfponding with thefe : That leveral iliell-fifh fuffered 
luch violence and force in the faid great flood, infomuch as to be 
cru/hed, bruifed, and fqueezed flat, as Ibme of thofe maniTeftly 
are, is by no means to be wondered at, when we confider the 
great pieces of rifing rocks, hills and mountains, that muft needs 
roll down, and fall, in fuch a general confufion, as muft needs 
have been in the quarry, at the eaft-end of the town of B rough- 
ton -^ where fragments of innumerable fliells are found, as alio 
fome fhell-fifli Iqueezedfiat, which are all natural, and not petri- 
fied 5 there was by the deluge flung thereon a huge bed of a 
mixed fubftance, now turned into a whitifh loft cankered ftone, 
upon which were thrown vafb quantities of earth, all which 
prefled the tender (hells fo much, that fbme were Iqueezed flat, 
others broken to pieces, as they are found to this day. 
M. de la \Pryme had a hard ftone, of the afore faid blue quar- 
ry, with little bits of wood coals therein, and whole leaves of 
Vaccinia or whortle-berries, fuch as grow upon heaths ^ befides, 
Mr. IJuyd has given feveral large accounts of whole leaves, and 
plants found in ftones and rocks, and deep in the bowels of the 
earth; fome folded, others plain, and Ibme imperfe£t ; all which 
is eafily Iblvable, by their being, in that general hurry and con- 
fufion, leizcd upon, and embodied in lumps of clay, and other 
mattery whilft others were caught and intercepted in rolling beds 
of earth, as they tumbled down from rifing hills and mountains, 
and fo were lodged deep in chafms of the ground and petrified, 
and thus preferved to this day. 
A Cataraft /;; Gottenburg River, and the Oblervatory of 
Tycho Brahej by Mr. Gordon. Phil. Tranf. N°2d5. p. on. 
AT ibme leagues diftance from Gottenburg in Sweden, a river 
of the fame name falls down from a prodigious high pre- 
cipice into a deep pit, with a terrible noife, and fuch a mighty 
force, that the mafts, which are floated down the river to Got- 
tenburg^ ufually turn topfy-turvy in their fall, and often fly to 
pieces, when dadied againft thefurface of the water in the pir- 
this happens, if the mafts fall fide-ways on the water ; but if 
they fall end wile, they dive fo far under water, that, as Mr. 
Gordon was informed, they are a quarter of an hour before they 
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