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the pofture whereinto they were put 

 by the burfting or breaking up of the 

 Sphere of Earth || : and not faUing (} c<?w/: 

 down again , nor returning to their ^^""f-J- 

 former and more level fite^ as did the 

 Strata of Earth, and other Matter that 

 was not fblid, and had no Strata of 

 Stone, or other confiftent Matter, in- 

 terpofed, amongft their under- 

 neath, to uphold them in the pofture 

 they were then raifed into. For which 

 realbn 'tis, that Countries which abound 

 with Stone, Marble, or other fblid 

 Matter, are uneaven and mountainous: 

 and that thofe which aflford none of 

 thefe, but confift of Clay, Gravel, and 

 the like, without any Stone d^c. inter- 

 poled, are more champaign, plain, and 

 level. That the lower parts of the 

 Earth, allies^ the Chanel of the Sea^ 

 and the reft, are nothing but Depref 

 fions of the Strata. That IJlands were 

 formed and diftinguifhed by the De- 

 preffion or finking down of the Strata 

 lying betwixt each of them, and be- 

 twixt them and the Continent. In 

 one word, that the whole ttrraqueom 

 Globe was, by this means, at the time 

 of the Deluge, put into the Condition 

 that we now behold. 



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