Part !• of the Earth. 



on it. So that by this Refutation of 

 all thefe, I might prove my own 

 ( which is the only one remaining) by 

 Indudion ; but this kind of proof is 

 not needful, where more cogent and 

 fojitive Arguments are not wanting. 



And thus much of this Part I get 

 over by the fble guidance of my Senfes. 

 A View of the prefent flate of thefe 

 Bodies alone convinced me fulBcient- 

 ly that the means, propofed by thefe 

 Authors, were not the true ones : that 

 they were both levelled vyide, and fell 

 all fh-ort of the Mark. Now though 

 this was enough for my prefent pur-? 

 pofe ^ and when I had evinced that, 

 although fuch Alterations , as thofe 

 which thefe Gentlemen fuppofe : Tran- 

 fitions, and Migrations of the Center 

 of Gravity : Elevations of new Iflands : 

 whole Countries gained from the Sea: 

 and other like Changes had aStudy hap- 

 pened, yet thefe Shells could never pof- 

 fibly have been repofed thereby in the 

 manner we now find them : I fay, 

 when I had proved this, I was not im- 

 mediately concerned to enquire whe- 

 ther fuch Alterations had really ever 

 happened or not ; yet partly for a fuller 

 and more effedual Difproof of the re- 

 cited 



