fen ae - The Natural Hiftory of the ~ Book L 
undation, in the Time of the Deluge, ran, ‘as above defcribed,. is the: 
coping Figure of the Iland, from Eaft to Welt; for, if we narrowly and - 
attentively: view the feveral gradual Defcents of fo many. continued Ridges 
of Rocks, like Cafcades,, declining precipitately to the Weltward {for tn- 
flance, that. long Chain of Hills, from Mount Gilboa, in St. Lucia’s Parith, 
to the Black Rock, in St. Michael's Parith), we cannot well otherwife con-. 
chide, from the deep Soil, on the Eaftward of thefe, where the Land is. . 
level ; and from the ragged, and bare-wath’d Surface, ‘to the. Weft; bur 
that the latter was thus torn by theViolence-of theWaters failing over theny;- 
and the fornier, the Effect of the fubfided Sediment, upon. the Decreafe - 
of the Deluge. The Want of fiich a Bed of Rocks; from Black Rock to 
coe Aiine's Cafile, caufed that Chafm which opéns'to the Sea thro’ Bridge- 
_. Lown, oppofite to the Valley of 5. George’s. What further confirms me - 
in my Opinion, and. brings what I have firft offer'd, as conjectural, toa 
" greater Degree of Certainty, is the Obfervation I made upon the ruinous. 
' «Tops of moft of the lofty Mountains in Worth America, as well: as-dn- 
_ England. - In thofe, Norther variable: Climates, Nature felt the’ univer- 
_ fal Shock promifcuoufly on every Point of the- Compafs ; whereas our 
~ Hills and Clifts, which extend along the Ealt Side of the Mand, difco- - 
ver no Indications, on the Weftern Sides, of any Violence receiv’d, but. ae 
what was naturally oceafion’d, by the falling off of the Waters, upon the =“) ° 
Decreafe of the Deluge. The Gourfe of fo many deep Chafms, or abrupt 
Fiffures in the Earth (call’d here Gudlies) always running from Eaft to Welt, 
is likewife an additional, and even an’ unanfwerable Argument in favour, _ 
_ of what hath been urg’d upon this Head: And, that thefe were origi- © 
nally the Effe& of the Deluge, tho’ fince much inlarg’d by repeated wri 
_.. Torrents, will evidently appear by viewing the oppofite Sides of thofe’. 
deep: Chafms in the Earth, where are to be feen large Pieces of Rocks, °° — 
that appear to have. been once intire, but afterwards. forcibly torn.afun- | 
_ der: And as thefe, divided Rocks are-often to. be found ‘near the Heads \.. Tsoe 
_or Beginnings of thefe Gullies, where the greateft Stream of colle@ed. ” 
-. Rain-water, even in the greateft Flood, is too {mall and weak to be the © 
~ Caufe of fo violent a Separation ; therefore we may, with great Reafon, 
conclude, that this Difunion, and torn State, was effeGted by the Guirent « 
of the (4) Deluge 5 and. that its regular Courfe, to. the Weftward, between 
the Tropics, was but the natural Gonfequence of an (5) Eafterly Trade- 
‘Wind, which guided and byafs’d its Courfe to that Point. Former. 
Wee otte: Defcriptions. of this. Ifland begin’ with barely mentioning its Difco- 
very of the 
_  Wet-India very by :the Portuguefe, and. the Settlement. of the FE hij * 
 Iflands by. : ie REET: : : © Lngujb, there, 
“the Prme in. the Reign of King Yames the Firft, in the Year “16 Pleated 
Ee cakby the leaft Inquiry, whether. it had been ever before inhabited, ‘and: b 
the Englip. whom. It is, indeed, faid, that fome of the firft Difcoverers of this. 
_} Mand‘ 
. (4) This Opinion was confirm’d to mi ny tha ition: or fa Basia 
Phylicin, late of this Mand. ns Coneurfent Conjedture of Dr. 1Yarrén. a very ingenious 
(5) The Caufe and Nature of Trade-Winds are excellently explained by the great Dr. Halley, 
