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FOKTIS.— ODOAEDL— KASPE. 



[On. III. 



writings referred to by Catcott, an Hut cliin soman, wlio pub. 

 lislied a 'Treatise on the Deluge ' in 1761. He laboured 

 particularly to refute an explanation offered by bis contem- 



porary 



Bishop Clayton, of the Mosaic writings. 



That 



prelate had declared that the deluge * could not be literally 

 true, save in respect to that part where Noah lived before 

 the flood/ Catcott insisted on the universality of the deluge, 

 and referred to traditions of inundations mentioned 



by travellers, in the East I 



Auie 



ica, and other countries. This part of his book 

 is valuable, although it is not easy to see what bearing the 

 traditions have, if admitted to be authentic, on the Bishop's 

 argument, since no evidence is adduced to prove that the 

 catastrophes were contemporaneous events, while some of 

 them are expressly represented by ancient authors to have 

 occurred in succession. 



Fortis — Odoardi, 1761. — The doctrines of Arduino, above 

 adverted to, were afterwards confirmed by Fortis and Des- 

 marest, in their travels in the same country; and they, as 

 well as Baldassari, laboured to complete the history of the 

 Subapennine strata. In the work of Odoardi,"* there was also 

 a clear argument in favour of the distinct ages of the older 

 Apennine strata, and the Subapennine formations of more 

 recent origin. He pointed out that the strata of these two 

 groups were uncomformable, and must have been the deposits 

 of different seas at distant periods of time. 



Raspe, 1763. — A history of the new islands by Baspe, an 

 Hanoverian, appeared in 1763, in Latin.f In this work, all 

 the authentic accounts of earthquakes which had produced 

 permanent changes on the solid parts of the earth were 

 collected together and examined with judicious criticism. 

 The best systems which had been proposed concerning the 

 ancient history of the globe, both by ancient and modern 

 writers, are reviewed ; and the merits and defects of the 

 doctrines of Hooke, Ray, Moro, Button, and others, fairly 



* 



Sui Corpi Marini del Feltrino, losophical Works of Leibnitz. Amst, .et 



1761. 



t De Novis e Man Natis Insults. Gems,' and 

 Raspe was also the editor of the ' Phi- Travels/ 



Leipzig, 1765 ;' also author of Tassies 



Munchausen s 



Baron 







