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I" PART III. SECT. It 



Of the Univerja/ky of the Deluge. 

 Of the Water which ejfeSied it4 

 Together with fme further Par^ 

 ticulars concerning it. 



TN the precedent Sefl:ion I conlider 

 1 the prefent and natural State of the 

 Fluids of the Globe. I ranfack the fe- 

 deral Caverns of the Earth: and learch 

 into the Storehoufes of Water; and 

 this principally in order to find out 

 \yhere that mighty Mafs of Water 

 %bich overflowed the whole Earth in 

 the days of Noah^ is now beftowed 

 and concealed : as alio which way 'tis 

 vtt this time ufeful to the Earth and its 

 Productions, and ferviceable to the 

 prefent Purpofes of Almighty Provi- 

 dence. ^ ^ 



Such a Deluge as that which Mo/es 

 typrefents, whereby J/I the high Hills 

 that were under the whole Heaven were 

 covered f , would require a portentous 

 quantity of Waters and Men of Cu-* 

 riofity J in all Ages ^ have been very 



much 



