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Shells* Monte Mario ^ a mile from Rome^ is 

 alfb full of fuch things; bcfides, I have found 

 fbme of them on the Alps^ at Lijfy in France^ 

 and elfewhere. Olearius^ StenOy Cambdeit^ Speedy 

 and many other Authors, both ancient and mo- 



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" dern, have taken notice of this Phaenomenon; 

 " and I read with pleafure, the Diflertation you 



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fent me on this Subject : Yet fince you defire 

 me to deal plainly with you, I muft tell 

 you, that I am not of your opinion, as to the 

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15. " If thefe Shells were the produdt and re- 

 *^ mainder of the Deluge, I would willingly be 

 informed, why it did not rather leave them, in 

 deep Bottoms and Vallies, than throw up whole 

 Mountains of them ; and alfo, why they are 

 fb rarely found ; for, it feems more agreable to 

 reafon, that they Ihould have been fcattered 

 more univerfally upon the face of the Earth, and 

 not gathered into Heaps, as the few that are left 

 are always found. It is not impoffible, that 

 thefe Shells might be prefer ved ever fince the 

 Deluge, and therefore I will not infift on that 

 difficulty; but give me leave to tell you, that 

 you fecm to have a falfe notion of the Waters of 

 the Deluge: For, to give a reafon why thofe 

 ** Shells, which you imagine to be Sea- fhells, are 

 ** found in the middle of the Land, you fuppofe' 

 " that the Deluge was a Sea^ But as for me, I' 



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