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tant Art of Navigation, To which may be ad- 

 ded, which I fhall hereafter mention, that they 

 ferve to demonftrate the fpherical Roundnefs of 

 the Earth : So that I may well conclude with 

 the Pfalmift, Fjal xix. i. T!he Heavens declare 

 the Glory of Gody and the Firmament peweth his 

 Handy-work, 



Of Terrejlrial and Inanimate Simple Bodies, 



I come now to confider the Terreftrial Bo- 

 dies. I fhall fay nothing of the whole Body of 

 the Earth in general, becaufe I referve that as 

 one of the Particulars I Ihall more carefully and 

 curioufly examine. 



Terreftrial Bodies, according to our Method 

 before propounded, are either ina^iifnatey or ani-- 

 mate ; and the inanimate either fvnple^ or mixt ; 

 Simple, as the four Elements, Fire, Water^ 

 Earth and Air : I call thefe Elements in Com- 

 pliance (as I faid before) with the vulgarly-re- 

 ceiv'd Opinion ; not that I think them to be 

 the Principles or component Ingredients of all 

 other fublunary Bodies : I might call them the 

 four great Aggregates of Bodies of the fame 

 Species, or four Sort of Bodies, of which there 

 are great Aggregates. Thefe, notwithftanding 

 they are endued with contrary Qualities, and are 

 continually encroaching one upon another, yet 

 they are fo balanced, and kept in fuch an. Equi- 

 libriiim,^ that neither prevaileth over other, but 

 what one gets in one Place it lofeth in another. 



Firft, Fire cheriflieth and reviveth by its 

 Heat, without which all Things would be tor- 



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