7 f the 'Natural Bifiory Part IL 



not poffibly be repofed in that manner 

 by particular Inundations : by the Seas 

 receding and fhifting from place to 

 place : nor by any of the other means 

 there propofed : I pals next on to 

 fearch out the true means : and to dii^ 

 cover the Agent that did afliually bring 

 them forth, and difpofed them into 

 the Method and Order wherein we 

 pow find them. To which purpofe I 

 haye recourie again to the Oblervati- 

 ons ; for by their Affiftance this Matter 

 may be rightly and fully adjufted. So 

 that I fhall only proceed, as hitherto, 

 to make Inferences from them 5 which 

 Inferences, in this Part are all ^JJirma^ 

 tive. Of thefe, the firft is, 

 I. That thefe l^arine Bodies were 

 coj,fer. born forth ^ of the Sea by the Univer-j 

 . p^rt 3. fal Deluge : and that, upon the return 

 Imf. ^3 Water back again from off the 



: ' Earth, they vv ere left behind at Land. 



This is a Propofition of fotne weighf: 

 and confequence ^ upon which Ac- 

 count I fhall be fomewhat proHx and 

 particular in the Eftablifhment of it : 

 careful and exaO: in conferring every 

 Circumftance of thele Marine Bodies, 

 to fee how they fquare with it : and 

 fliail not diimifs it till I have evincec| 



. that 



