I o 8 The Natural Hifiory Part II. 



Why the Shells, Teeth, Bones, and 

 other parts of Animal Bodies : as alio 

 the Trunks, Roots, and other parts of 

 Vegetables, Were not difTolved, as well 

 as the Stone, and other Mineral Solids 

 of that Earth. Of this I (ball affign a 

 plain and Phyfical Reafbn, taken meer- 

 ly from the Caufe of the Solidity of 

 thefe Mineral Bodies; which I ihew 

 to be quite different from that^ where- 

 unto Vegetables and Animals owe the 

 ; Cohsefion of their parts : and that thii 



was fufpended, and ceafed, at the time 

 that the Water of the Deluge came 

 forth ; which the other (I mean the 

 Caufe of the Cohcefion of the Parts of 

 Animals and Vegetables ) did not j 

 with the reafbn of this. 



What was the Reafon that (in cafe 

 the Terreftrial Globe was entirely diP 

 fblved, and there be now, and was 

 then, a Space or Cavity, in the Cen- 

 tral parts of it, fo large as to give re- 

 ception to that mighty Mafs of Water 

 which covered the Earth at the De- 

 * r,d. luge ^ ) the Terreftrial Matter which 

 Tart 3. fij-ft fubfided, ( as in ConfeB. 5. fufra ) 

 a%k I. f^icl not fill the faid Cavity, and defcend 

 and quite down to the Center, but flop'd at 

 r'^r o tliat diftance from it, forming an arch- 



