1?art IIL of the Martk f 3 1 



Guts, thrdugh the La^eals and other 

 finer Veffels, to the feveral parts of theit 

 Bodies. But the Fprmation of Animals 

 and Vegetables, being a thing fome^ 

 ivhat foreign to my prefent purpofe, I 

 iliall adjourn the fuller Confideration 

 of it to another Occkfion. How far 

 Water is concerned in the Formation 

 of Minerals^ will appear more at large 

 in the fucceeding Part of this Work. 



That 'tis t\\is Vapour J or fuhtile Flmd^ i 1 6 

 that afcending thus ineelTantly out of 

 the Abyf§5 and pervadmg the Strata of 

 Gravel, Sand^ Earth, Stone, and the 

 reft, by degrees rots and decays the 

 Boms^ Shells^ Teeth^ and other parts of 

 Animals : as alio the Trees^ and other 

 Vegetables, which were lodged in thofe 

 Strata at the Deluge \\ this Fluid, by . . 

 its continual Attrition as it pafles fuc- coi^^r 

 cefGvely by them, fretting the laid Bo- 

 dies, by little and little wearing off 

 and diffipating their conftituent Cor- 

 pufcles, and at length quite dilToIving 

 and deftroying their Texture. That 

 yet it hath not this Effeft indifferently 

 upon all of them; thofe which hap- 

 pened to be repofed in the firmer and 

 comparer Strdta^ e. g. of Marble, the 

 cloier kinds of Sand-ftone^ GhaJk, and 



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