to the Natural Uifiory Part rf. 



and fpherical : that they were conti- 

 riuous, and not interrupted, or broken : 

 and that the whole Mafs of the Water 

 lay then above them all, and confti- 

 ^ tuted a fluid Sphere environing the 

 Globe* 



6. That after fbmetiffie the 5?r4:?/iwere^ 

 broken, on all fides of the Globe : that 

 they were diflocated, and their Situa- 

 tion varied, being elevated in fbrrfe 

 places, and deprefled in others. 



7» That the Agent, or force, which 

 eflfefted this Difruptiori arid Diflocation 

 of the Strata^ was feated within the 

 Earth. 



That all the Irregularities and In- 

 equalities of the Terreftrial Glob6 

 were caufed by this means : date their 

 Original from" this Difruption, and are 

 all entirely owing urito it. That the 

 natural Grottos in Rocks, and thofe 

 Intervals of the Strata^ which, in my 

 Obfervations, I call the PerpendicuUir 

 Fiffims^ are nothing but thele Inter- 

 ruptions or Breaches of the Strata^ 

 That the more eminent Parts of the 

 Earth, Mountdns and Rocks ^ are only 

 the Elevations of the Strata:, thefe, 

 wherever they were fblid , fearing 

 againfl: and fupporting each other i^ 



the 



