Part IL of the Earth. toy 



Senfe on this Subje6t. There are a few 

 other Paflages in the fame Author 

 which may require feme Explication : 

 but they are none of them fuch that a 

 Reader of moderate Under (landing 

 may not eafily clear them, without my 

 AfEftance, fo that I fhall not crowd 

 this Piece with them 5 for I fear 't\\ ill 

 be thought that I have already taken 

 too great a Hberty. The Compafs that 

 I am confined unto, by the Rides of this 

 kind of Writing, is fo narrow, that I 

 am forced to pafs over many things in 

 filence, and can but juft touch upon 

 others. To lay down every thing at 

 length, and in its full light, fo as to 

 obviate all Exceptions, and remove 

 every DifRculty, would carry me out 

 too far beyond the Meafures allowed 

 to a Trad of this Nature. That's the 

 Bufinefs of the Larger Work, of which 

 this is only the Module or Platform- 

 In that Work I hope to make amends 

 for thefe Omillions, and particularly 

 (hall confider 



What was the immediate Inflru- 

 ment or Means whereby the Srooe, and 

 other iblid Matter of the Antediluvian 

 Earth was diffolved, and reduced to 

 the Condrcicn mendoned Confect 2. of 

 this Part. - Why 



