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unmixed with any other, but for the moil part to 

 lie huddled and confounded together. 



For, we are not to fuppoie our globe to re- 

 femble a trough, or the like excavated figure, 

 wherein the varioufly mixed earths are to be re- 

 gularly difpofed, as in the operation ofbuddlingor 

 wafliing ores, but to be of a fpherical arched form -, 

 where the waters, as on a hanging bottom, pow- 

 erfully rend and pull it afunder •, and this force of 

 the waters we may fuppofe to be greatefl at the 

 beginning, and end of the deluge. 



And here we have two circumftances in par- 

 ticular to confider, ( i ) That the deeps of the earth 

 (the cavities and veins being not only broken, 

 but enlarged) were filled both with the bituminous 

 flime of the ocean, the various forts of earth of 

 the upper furface, and alfo, with the parts of 

 vegetables and animals. (2) That ores, ftones, 

 and minerals, were not only driven inwards by 

 the elevation of the under-turf earth, but alfo 

 outwards to the day, by the eruption of the waters 

 of the abyfs, and thrown into and among the un- 

 der-turf earth ; as will appear no ways improbable, 

 from confidering the violence of the burfting 

 waters, and that prodigious load of fea impe- 

 tuoufly rolling to and fro on the furface. Can 

 It with reafon be pretended, that before the de- 

 luge any vulcano's exifled ? or can their origin be 

 afcribed to any better caufe, than that, exclufive 

 of the commonly allowed parts of animals and 

 vegetables, it alfo ferved to fupply the bituminous 

 matter of the fea, as fo much new fewel fuperadded 

 to the fulphureous inexhauflible load of ores already 

 lodged in the bowels of the earth: and further, 

 feeing volcanoes are never found except near the 

 fea, may not that immenfe mafs of undeveloped 

 materials ferve for inceffant fupplies to their pro- 

 duction ? 



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