Preface. 



jg diipofe and order things^ hy interwea-^ 

 leing with the Jfferttons Jome of the Proofs 

 whereon they depend^ and occafionally 

 fcattering federal of the more important 

 OhferDations throughout the Worh^^ that it 

 will he no Dery hard Tash^jor any one to 

 iifcoDer the main Grounds whereon all 

 that I here advance is founded. 



That this may be the more clearly ap- 

 prehended j I jhall heg leaTe to illujirate 

 it hy one or two Inflames. It will perhaps 

 at firji fight feem 'Very jlrange^ and al- 

 mojl fljock, an ordinary Reader to find me 

 4jjerting^ as 1 do^ that the whole Terre-- 

 final Globe was taken all to pieces and 

 dijfohed at the Deluge the Particles of 

 Stone ^ Marble^ and all other folid Fojjtls 

 di^eDeredy taken up into the Water ^ and 

 there Juftained together with Sea-jhells 

 md other Animal and Vegetable Bodies : 

 and that the pre fern Earth confifs^ and 

 was formed out of that promifcuom Maji 

 Qf Sand 3 Earth J Shells^ and the reji^ 



falling 



