Book I1. iland of BARBADOS. 
Laftly, If we fuppofe, that the whole Plain was fufficiently ftored with 
Bitumen to caufe, in a natural Way, fuch a Defolation ; then we muft 
necefiarily grant, that it muft be a very barren Spot, and improper to be 
inhabited, contrary to its Situation, with regard to the Climate, and con~ 
trary to the Defcription which is given of it: For, When Lot lifted up 
bis Eyes, be beheld all the Plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every= 
where; and therefore made Choice of it. ; : 
I hope I have faid enough to thew, from the Nature of this Kind of 
Foffil, and the Barrennefg of the Place wherein it is always found, as 
well as from the great Extent and Suddennefs of the Deftruétion, that it 
could not proceed, as Monf. Le Clerc imagined, in a-natural Way, from 
the Firing of thefe fuppofed Bituminous Veins, but from the miraculous 
Power of God. 
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