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CHAP. IL 



A yr ANY who have wrote in former times on 

 nature, fuppofe that all things, which 

 were at firft created by God on this globe, have 

 been ever fince, by his Providence, continued 

 through an implanted feminal power down to 

 thefe times, and will continue as long as the 

 earth endure th : yet fome great naturalifts in 

 thefe days are quite of a different opinion, and 

 their reafons for thefe opinions are founded on 

 the great variety of fofTil fubftances found daily 

 in many parts of the world, refembling animals 

 and parts of animals now in being, as well as 

 animals and parts of animals not to be met with 

 by the moil laborious fearches of the curious. 



From the general face of things we may fafe- 

 ly conclude there have been great revolutions on 

 the face of this earth, which in many places 

 feem to have been caufed by a great quantity of 

 water prevailing, and paffing very fwiftly over 

 its furface, breaking up its lower parts, and rear- 

 ing 



