The Natural Hijlory PartIL 



this fliorter Treatife with the Relation 

 of them, referving that room for thofe 

 of the fecond Clals, which are thofe 

 whereof we have a plain and undeni- 

 able Certainty : thofe which flow di- 

 reftly and immediately from the Ob- 

 fervations : and whioh are fo evident, 

 that 'tis impoiEble thefe Marine Bodies 

 could have been any ways lodged in 

 fuch manner, and to fb great depths, 

 in the Beds of Stone, Marble, Chalk, 

 and the reft, had not thefe Alterations 

 all happened. Namely, 



That during the time of the Deluge, 

 whilft the Water was out upon, and 

 covered the Terreftrial Globe, All the 

 Stone and Marble of the Antediluvian 

 Earth : all the Metalls of it : all Mi- 

 neral Concretions: and, in a word, 

 all Foflils whatever that had before 

 obtained any Solidity, were totally 

 diflblved, and their conftituent Cor- 

 pufcles all disjoyned, their Cohssfion 

 perfeftly ceafing. That the faid Cor- 

 pufcles of thefe fblid FofEls, together 

 with the Corpufcles of thofe which 

 were not before folid, fuch as Sand, 

 Earthy and the Hke : as alfb all Ani- 

 mal Bodies , and parts of Animals , 

 Bonss^ Teeth;^ Shells : Vegetables, and 



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