The Natural Hifiory Part IL 



that there was fome real and very ne« 

 ceflary Caufe for the making that Al- 

 teration. Nor was fiich a Cauie very 

 hard to be found out. The firft Earth 

 was fuited to the firft liate of Man- 

 kind ; who were the Inhabitants of it, 

 and for whole ufe 'twas nmade. But 

 when Humane Nature had , by the 

 Fa/l^ fulfer d fb great a Change, 'twas 

 but neceffary that the Earth fhouid 

 undergo a Change too, the better to 

 accommodate it to the Condition that 

 Mankind was the/^ in : and /uch a 

 Change the Deluge brought to pafs. 



But leaft that the Bnvity which I 

 have above uied, and which indeed I 

 am tied up to, in my Reprefentation 

 of this matter, fhouid render it hable 

 to Mifconftruftion : or that any one 

 jQiould fufpeft, that what I have deli- 

 vered concerning the Fertility of that 

 Earthy does not well fquare with the 

 Mofaick Defcription of it, I muft beg 

 leave to make a Digreflion here, that 

 I may explain my felf a little more 

 upon that Plead. And that the Reader 

 may himfelf be Judge in the Cafe, I 

 lliall fairly lay down Mo[ts\ fenfe of it 

 in his own words. 



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