jPartlllo of the Earth. i^f 



pofition of it out of the Materials qf 

 the foraier Earth was a work of Coun- 

 fel and Sagacity : a Work apparently 

 above the higheft reaches of Chance, 

 or the Powers of Nature 5 and this be- 

 ing a proper place wherein to produce 

 thojfe Proofs, I fliall give fuch Hints of 

 them as the Brevity I am tyed up to 

 will permit me, and then conclude. 



I am indeed well aware that the Au- 

 thor of the Theory of the Earth differs *Lib. li, 

 very milch from me in Opinion as to ^* 

 this matter. He will not allow that 

 there are any fuch Signs of Art and 

 Skill in the Make of the Prefent Globe 

 as are here mentioned : or that there 

 was fb great Care, and fuch exaft 

 Meafures taken in the re-fitting of it 

 up again at the Deluge. He reckons it 

 no other than an huge diforderly Pile 

 of Ruines and Rubbifh : and is very un- 

 W'illing to believe that it was the Pro- 

 Audi of any Reafbning or Defigning 

 Agent. Xhe Chanel of the Ocean ap- 

 pears to him the moB ghafily thing in 

 Nature^ and he cannot at all admire its 

 beauty or elegamy : for '^tis^ in his judg- 

 ment, M deformed and irregular as it is 

 greats And for the Caverns of the 

 Barth^ the Fiflurss and Breaches of the 



£i 2 Strata^ 



