i 60 the Natural Eipry Pa[rC III. 



quantity requifite: and that in arij 

 known parts of the Vniverfe^ to find IVd^ 

 ter fufficieni for this effeSi^ ad it is gene^ 

 rally explained and under Jl 00 d^ ^, he 

 thinks, impoffible : that is, fQfRcient to 

 eaufe a Deluge^ to ufe his own Words, 

 overflowing the whole Earthy the whole 

 Circuity and whole Extent of it^ burying 

 all in Water ^ even thegreateft Mountains: 

 which is, in plain terms, fuch a one 

 as was explained and under flood by 

 Mofes^ and the Generality of Writers 

 fince. 



Having therefore thus over-haftily 

 concluded that fuch a Deluge was im- 

 poffible : and that ail Nature could not 

 afford Water enough to drown the 

 whole Globe, if of the Circuit and 

 Extent that now it is : he flies to a 

 new Expedient to folve the Matter, 

 and fuppofes an Earth of a Make and 

 Frame much like that imaginary one 

 li Princ. of the Famous Monfieur Des Cartes |j, 

 p ihf. .4. ^j^j^j^ makes to fall all to pieces, at 

 the Deluge, and tocontra£t it felf into 

 a leffer room, that the Water might 

 the better furround and encompafs it. 



The fbber and better fort of the 

 Standers-by , and thole who were 

 Well-wifhers to Mofes^ began to be 



under 



