dried up, is little, if at all diminished. And in the 

 wettest seasons it is not increased, unless violent rain 

 falling into it, or running into it from the higher grounds, 

 raise it for a day, or a few hours, 



As to the manner how the water rises in such springs 

 it may easily be represented, by putting a small heap of 

 sand in a bason, and then pouring in water. Here the 

 sand will represent the dry land, and the water the sea 

 round about it. And as the water in the bason rises to 

 or near the top of the heap, just so do the waters of 

 the sea rise, to the top f the land with which it com- 

 municates. 



10. Some think the earth entirely covered the sen, 

 till at the deluge the fountains of the great deep were 

 broken up. And it is highly probable there is still an 

 abyss of water within the earth, which has an uninter- 

 rupted communication with some part of the outward 

 sea. 



The iinmediite cause of the deluge, was probably 

 that comet, which (as Mr. Whiston shews) passed toward 

 the sim, just before the earth, on the first day of the 

 deluge. The consequence of this must be, that whetV 

 it came below the moon, it would nwse a vast and 

 strong tide, both in the waters that were on the antedi- 

 luvian earth, and also in the great abyss, which" was 

 under the crust of the earth. This tide must increase 

 Till the time that the comet jwas approaching toward the 

 earth; and would be at its greatest height, when the 

 cornet was at the least distance from" it. By the force 

 of this internal tide, as well as by the attraction of the 

 comet, tke abyss which was nearly round before, would 

 then become oblong. And this must immediately ex- 

 tend, and then burst the incumbent crust. And thus, 

 according to the expression of Moses, the fountains of 

 the great deep tvere broken up. 



Again. As the same comet for a considerable time 

 involved the earth in its atmosphere, it must have lost a 

 vast quantity of its vapours, most of which would fall 

 on the earth in violent rain. And thusl#/ii dows of 



