Part I. of the Earth. 



themfelves with the pafi and pnfent 

 ftate of the terraqueous Globe; and 

 not to have pafs'd Sentence till they 

 had firft connpared the moft ancient 

 Defcriptions of Countries with the 

 Countries themfelves as now they (land. 

 Nay, had they but read and attended 

 to the Accounts which the very Au- 

 thors, from w^hom they borrow thefe 

 Opinions, have left us, they might 

 have difcovered, even from them, the 

 Errors and Overfights of their Authors : 

 and have learn'd , that the Face of 

 Sea and Land is the very fame at this 

 day that it was when thofe Accounts 

 were compiled: and that the Globe 

 hath not fuftained any confiderable Al- 

 terations, either in the whok^ or any 

 of its FartSy in all this time. 



Thofe who can content themfelves 

 with a Superficial View of Things: 

 who are fatisfied with contemplating 

 them in grofs : and can acquiefce in a 

 general, and lefs nice Examination of 

 them: whofe Thoughts are narrow 

 and bounded : and their Profpefts of 

 Nature fcanty, and by piecemeal, muft 

 tieeds make very ihort and defective 

 Judgments, and;, oftentimes very er- 

 roneous, and wide of truth. Some 



fanciful 



