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ON THE RELIGION AND 



" produced by water, or wind, the circumftances are 



" very fimilar. For when water is to deftroy a world, 



*' at firll there fall very gentle (liowers, which by degrees 



" increafing, at length become 



" fo prodigious, that each 



" drop is 1000 juzana in mag- 



'• nitudc. By fuch rain the 



" abodes of men, and Nat., 



. " Ibme of the Zian^ and all the 



" other million and ten thou- 



" fand worlds, are entirely dif- 



" folvcd. When a world isde- 



" ftroyed by wind, the Nat 



"having finifiied his warn- 



" ings, a fine rain falls. But 



" it is the laft rain during that 



" world. After 100,000 years 



" the wind begins to blow, 



" and gradually increafes. At 



" firft it only raifes fand, and 



" fmall ftones; but at length it 



" whirls about immenfe rock s, 



" and the fummits of moun- 



" tains. Then fliaking the 



" whole earth, it dilBpatesthis 



" and the others, with all the 



*' habitations of the F^at^ Ru- 



" pa^znd Arupa, and fcatters 



" them through the immenfe 



" extent of the flcies. 



" The adjoining plan fliews 

 " the order in which thcBiir- 

 " 7nas fuppofe the fuccelTive 

 " worlds to be deftroyed by 

 '•' fire, water, and wind. 



" From this plan it will appear, that out of fixty- 

 ^' four times, the world is fifty -fix times deftroyed by 



*' fire, 



