The Natural Eiflory Part L 



Boonds of the Sea as they imagine ; 

 hot likewife many other,, and not left 

 pernicious, Perturbacions of the courft 

 of even untverfd Nature. 



Or was the Univerfb left to its mn 

 ConduQ: and Management : the whole 

 Mafs of created Matter to its froftr 

 Difpofition and Tendency : were there 

 no reftraint of Bounds to the Earthy 

 fior Curb to the fury of the Ocean : 

 was there not Om who had [tt bars and 

 doors to it J and [aid hitherto fialt thm 

 comtj but no farther^ and here Jha[l thy 

 froud Waves be Jlaid; then indeed 

 might we well expe8: fuch Viciffitudes 

 and Confufions of things : fuch Juft- 

 lings and Clafliings in Nature : lucfi 

 Depredations-^ and Changes of Sea and 

 Land. 



But if the fame mighty Power 

 which in the beginning produced this 

 vaft Syftem of Bodies out of Nothings 

 and difpofed and ranged them into the 

 moft excellent and beautiful order we 

 now behold • which at firft framed m 

 Earth of a Conftitution futable to the 

 innocent ftate of its primitive Inhabi- 

 tants : and afterwards when Man had 

 degenerated^ and quitted that Inoa* 

 cence^ altered that. Conftitetioo of the 



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