fart IIL of the Earth. 1 5p 



ted. Others fuppoftd a Converfion of 

 the Air and Atmorphere into Water, 

 to ferve the turn. Many of them were 

 for fetching down I know not what 

 fiipercoeleftial Waters for the purpofe. 

 Others condoded that the Deluge rofe 

 only fifteen Cubits above the Level of 

 the Earth s ordinary Surface, covering 

 the Valleys and Plains, but not the 

 Mountains : all equally wide of Truth, 

 and of the Mind of the Sacred Writer. 



One of the laft Undertakers of all 

 feeing this, began to think the Gaufe 

 defperate ; and therefore , in effed , 

 gives it up. For confidering how un- 

 iiiccefsful the Attempts of thofe who 

 were gone before him had proved: 

 and having himfelf || alio emp/ojied his ^ Theory 

 Ujl and utmoft endeavours to find out ^^^^^^ ^ 

 Waters for the Vulgar Deluge : having * ' * 

 muftered up all the Forces he could 

 think of, and all too little : The Clot^ds 

 4kovej and the Deeps below^ and in the 

 bowels of the Earth \ andthefe^ fays he, 

 4re all the Stores m have for Water ^ 

 and Mofes dire&s us to no other for the 

 Caufes of the Deluge : he prepares for a 

 Surrender, afferting, from a miftaken 

 and defective Computation, that all 

 fhefe will not come up to near the 

 . quan- 



