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angular Body, all the Angles would be vaft and 

 fteep Mountains, bearing a confiderable Propor- 

 tion to the whole Bulk, and therefore thofe Parts 

 being extremely more remote from the Center 

 than thofe about the middle of the Plains, would 

 confequently prefs very ftrongly thitherward, and 

 unlefs the Earth were made of Adamant or Mar- 

 ble, in time the other Parts would give way, till 

 all were levell'd. 



3. Were the Earth an angular Body, and not 

 round, all the whole Earth would be nothing elfe 

 but vaft Mountains, and fo incommodious for 

 Animals to live upon, for the middle Point of 

 every Side would be nearer the Center than any 

 other, and confequently from that Point, which 

 way foever one travell'd, would be up-hill, the 

 Tendency of all heavy Bodies being perpendicu- 

 larly to the Center 5 befides, how much this would 

 obftruft Commerce, is eafily feen ; for not only 

 the Declivity of all Places would render them 

 very difficult to be travelled over, but likewife the 

 midft of every Side being loweft and neareft the 

 Center, if there were any Rain, or any Rivers, 

 muft needs be fiU'd with a Lake of Water, there 

 being no way to difcharge it, and poffibly the 

 Water would rife fo high as to overflow the 

 whole Latus, But, furely, there would be 

 much more Danger of the Inundation of whole 

 Countries than now there is, all the Waters 

 falling upon the Earth, by reafon of its De- 

 clivity every way, eafily defcending ipwn to 



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