The Natural Hi flory Part Hi. 



Strata^ he cannot fancy that they were 

 formed by any work of Nature^ nor by my 

 immedUte ASiion of God^ feeing there is 

 neither ufey that he can difcover, 

 beauty in this kind of Confiruction. Then 

 for the Mountains, thefe^ fays, Art 

 f laced in no order one with another^ that 

 can either ref^eB Vfe or Beauty^ and do 

 not confifl of any proportion of Farts that 

 is referable to any Deftgn^ or that hath 

 the leafl footfleps of Art or Qounfel. In 

 £ne, he thinks there are feveral things 

 in the Terraqueous Globe thsLt sltg r/^e 

 and unfeemly : and many that are/#/^er- 

 fuous. He looks upon it as incommo^ 

 dious^ and as a broken and confuftd heap 

 of Bodies^ placed in no order to one ano^ 

 thtr^ nor with any correjpondency or regu^ 

 larity of Farts : and it feems to him 

 nothing better than a rude Lump^ and a 

 little dirty Flantt. I have given his 

 Opinion in his own Words, though I 

 have upon all Uke Occafions taken a 

 fliorter Courfe, and contented my felf 

 with giving only the (enfe of others^ 

 but this I have done here, lead: any 

 Man fhould fufpeft that I miflake the 

 Author's Sentiments, or do not repr^- 

 fcat them fairly. 



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