f2 TIm Natural Hiftory Parti. 



at kaftj foiae very large part of it. 



That there is no authentick Inftance 

 of my coofiderabie trad of Land that 

 was thrown op from the bottom of the 

 Sea^ by an Earthquake, or other fub- 

 terraoean Explofion , fb as to become 

 an Iflaod , and be render 'd habitable. 

 That Rhodm^ Thera^ Tberafa^ and fe- 

 deral other Wands, which were fuppo- 

 fed by the Ancients, and, upon their 

 Authority, by later Authors, to have 

 been thus railed, had really no fuch 

 Original, but have flood out above 

 Water as long as the reft of their Fel- 

 low Iflaods, and ftand now juft as the 

 Univerfal Deluge left them. 



That as to that affedion of Bodies 

 .which is called their Gravity^ it clearly 

 fyrpaffes all the Powers of meer Na- 

 ture, and all the Mechanifin of Matter. 

 That as any one Body, or part of Mat- 

 ter, cannot be the Caule of its own 

 Gravity : fb no more can it ever poffi- 

 b!y be the Caufe of the Gravity of ano- 

 ther Body, or part of Matter. That 

 neither the Earth's diurnal Revolution 

 upon its Axis : nor any magnetick Ef- 

 fluvia of the Earth: nor the Air, or 

 Almofphere which environs the Earth : 

 HOr the Mther^ or Materia fabtilis of 



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