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with in their a through the air, and the force with 
which -they: fell on the g 
denfation and convertion into: water, b 
they py me on the earth in the fo 
‘the fun was not fufficient to raife them up again 
Keill alfo ebje&s to Mr. 
the preflure of the waters, ae had defcended from the 
eomet, on the cruft of the earth, fo as to occafion the afcent 
of the waters of the abyfs through the cracks and fiflures 
on the furface of the eart e thinks it is s demontftratively 
Suet. that by no fort of preffure of Ge; incumbent fluid 
the aby{s could be forced upwards to fpread itfelf on the fur- 
ace of the earth. Mr. Keill nape examines Mr. Whilton’s 
ae of drain from the h the waters hielo | 
flat t 
the favtave of the fea to be 
where, at an average, a 
ter of a mile deep. Keill thinks it to be about three 
anes as much. order to afcertain this point, he affumes 
the ol grananesl height of the higheft mountain above the 
level of the o to be above three miles. Upon this fup- 
ight. y hypothefis a quarter of a 
mile deep, there see lefs than twelve oceans of 
water lying on the fieace: of the fea, that it may be of the 
fame height with the water which covered the lan 
Keill, by purfuing his calculation, on the fuppofition that 
the furface of the earth is befet with mountains, eac 
whole quantity of w 
univerfal deluge at 22 ene befides the mies that com- 
pofe the prefent ocean, or in the whole 23 oceans. But if 
the height of the ete ae a more water will be 
required to anfwer the (See the fequel of this 
article.) Although fuch a ae of water may be fup- 
evaporation and by ss into the abyfs, being very in- 
fufficient for the pur 
3.. But the great jifficulty fill remains. ri orderly 
Arata, or layers of the earth, with the e » or re- 
ains of fifhes, as their teeth, bones, fhells, . th ma- 
ae and fluviatile, found in the bodies even of the moft 
folid ftrata, and inte, marbles, are not 
counted for. Thofe who adhere to Des Cartes’ fyftem, < 
s Steno, &c. take the finding of the parts of terreftrial, 
and aquatic animals, branches of trees, leaves, &c. in the 
beds, or ftrata of ftone, to be a dire& proof of the primitive 
the firft; becaufe, ‘at the time of the firft there was neither 
plant nor animal in being. Sheae, therefore, maintains 
UGE. 
fecond formations, occafioned at different times by extraore 
dinary inundations, € arthquakes, volcanoes, &c. u 
Ww uchz oofe rather to attribute 
reat 
objeCtion againft this fyftem of fluidity, is eee for 
the whole globe being liquid, whence fhould fuch inequa- 
lities arife? Mr. Scheuchzer, rather than part with a 
fyftem which feems fo promifing, gives into the opinion of 
thofe who hold, that, after the deluge ge, God, to remit the 
heir fubterranean relervoirs, 
with his own almight 
€ 
an 
the furface of the earth, which was ennai y land; 
it is, that the flrata in mountains, though concent eal are 
never horizontal. Hilt. de Acad. 1708. p. 32. Pifcium 
aie wz, &c. and Phyfica Sacra. 
Dr. Woodward, taking the feveral ftrata for the fedi- 
of a deluge, and confidering the 
thole fifhes, fhells, and other exuvia, found in 
io nea oe ie very m 
e deluge. at thefe marine bodies, and other 
fpoils of lige ‘thes, were borne f. ut 
by the univerfal deluge ; and, on the return of the w; 
back again, were left behind upon the land. Secondly, that 
while the flood covered the globe, all the folid matters, as 
ftones, metals, minerals, and foffile, were totally diffulved, 
and the cohefion of their corpulcles deftroyed ; and that 
their corpufcles, with thofe of the Jefs folid bodies, as earth, 
ficfh a. anim ee and vegetables, were fuftained promifcuoutly 
in the and made one common mals hirdly, that 
all the ale thus fuftained, was at cng precipitated to 
the bottom ; and that, according to the _ of Te 
the heavieft fettled firft, and the reft in order. tha 
the matters, thus fubfiding, comlivated the feveral ftrata of 
ftone, earth, coal, &c. Fourthly, ths thefe ftrata were 
originally all parallel, even, and regular, and rendered che 
furtace of the earth aia {pherical ; and that the whole 
ma{s of water ral aie 
ini Seng th 
the fore 
varied ; bane elevated in fome places, a reffed in 
others; whence mountains, eae grott os, ae he the 
channel of the fea, iflands, n one-wor e whole 
terraqueous globe was put, by la Gian, and éifocaton 
f held it in, . 
ftrata, into the condition 
Sixthly, that upon the difruption of the flrata, and the 
depreffion of fome and elevation of other parts, which hap- 
pened towards the end of the deluge, the mafs of water fell . 
back again into the depreffed and loweft parts of the earth, 
into lakes, and other sae and the pei of the ocean, 
and through the whereby this communicates wit 
the abyis, which it filled "till it came to an hey ibrium with 
the ocea ie ift, of Eart 
diffolve the mountains, and the 
st fabric of the cat. Can we fuppofe, that, ae the. - 
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circumttances of - 
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