DPELUGE. 
er deep, which being heated by the fun became dry a and 
chink, and by thé rarefaCtion and expanfion of the enclofed 
vapours, clave, dade and fell down into the water, and fo 
drowned its inhabi 
The fame theoril vee that by this aca ak the globe 
of the earth was not only fhaken, a broke a thoufand 
places, but the violence al the fhoc underwent 
fhifted its Gtuation ; fo that the na which before was 
placed dire€tly under the zodiac, or had the plane of the 
with the Sees pouaene fo ae 
‘to move alw ays” 
the equator, became hencefo to * the 
Whence arofe the ana of tea, ahh did not belong 
to the antediluvian 
Thofe maffes of aie nes which fell i aN the — of wa- 
ters, one with them, — ing to this aut vaft quan 
tities of air, dafhed againtt ea other, aad ene ued aaa 
divided fo irregularly, that rest cavities filled with air, wcre 
The 3 graduaily opened pailages 
abe wer 
i 
a 
au tion as the 
©g 
itfelf in the aa elevated places; and, at 
peared n but in thofe extenfive ie which contain 
the eee. Thus our ocean is a part of the ancient abyfs, 
the reft of it remaios in the internal cayities, with which the 
dsa 
fea has a communication. Jflands and fea-rocks are the 
{mall ele and oo are the large ‘maffes of the 
ancient s b rupture and fall of this cruft 
hice. it is not {urprifing that 
= full of mountains, 
ry 
’s hypothefis is very elegantly recited, and 
Litis utterly incon- 
and n 
alfo eect the phyfical principles of nature, as 
Keil has fhewn in his ‘“* Examination of Dr. Burnet’s 
c. ed This author, 
rimitive earth was in- 
t, con- 
116, & 
f is of the 
clined to the plane of 2 ecliptic as it is at prefen 
Befides, judging from erpericnee, 
e fun does not penetrate far into the earth, 
igs pe agine it po offi, 
cruit of the cag fo as . be able to 
it into vapour ? 
had reached ihe abyfs, and had raifed the vapours fo that 
we cannot infer that t 
deluge, or indeed any aaeea all. 
own principles, all the water contained in the abyls was 
ut even allowing ey the heat of the fun‘ 
cuing the earth from a d 
upon it. For all the water which was in the abyfs, being 
rawn up 0 
a {pheroidical and oval van hie te hills and mountains, 
upper and lower grounds, y of the fame re 
t 
which its gravity ~ ccna ae formed it into, when 
it was fluid; the great mafs of water which was then upon 
the earth mutt bave fettled itfelf alfo in s fame figure, as 
nel, or mountains 
h 
land appear w before ae iia 
ret eae: that all the water, which is now in 
h 
luge, a op 
higheft oun ane For Or. Bur - ‘rit aaa ae a 
it would require eight oceans of wa cover the face of 
the whole earth, and ratfe the ae to a height fufficient 
for drowning the world. As there is but one ocean of wa-~ 
ter in the abyfs, the fall of the craft could only produc 
Befides, if the aby{s ponies 
e he whole earth at 
fo ae a hea as the Scr 
ie 150 days aren ae on a be Py ie 
ily conc 
centre of gravity was tranflated: nor can the poffibility of 
ae a tran{lation be allowed, fiance the centre of grav 8 
the neceffary refult of the materi Is compofing our globe, 
into a ee ‘oe, ene prefling out he wa 
h, may ver 
Hook’s * Difcourfe of Earthquakes,” written abont 
ottom of the fea 
4 1 ge. « The ‘Alp 
divers other t 
numbers, and fuch varieties of fea-fhells, may have been here~ 
e bottom of the fea—it is not im- 
tofore raifed up from 
Noah, the Omnipotent might 
make 
probable but in the flood 2 
