lio ■ TiM Ndtmal Biftory Parti?. 



greater part of them, I mean ail thofe 

 wliich we eow find lodged in thofe 

 • Sir did amoogft the Sand^ Earth, &c. 

 being aftoally repoied therein during 

 ehe time that the Water covered the 

 Earth : md the Earth it fe!f then put 

 — into fych a condition that the reft, I 

 meafi thofe we now find in the per- 

 peedicelar lotervallsj fliould be colieft« 

 ed thither by degrees, and be formed 

 * md-€mf^^^^^ of coorie, meerly by the ordi- 

 4.aaJf. mif Motion of the Water, and its 

 i^s. PaiTige to and fro in the Earth 



^« That whiift the Corpufcles of Me-^ 

 alls and Minerals^ together with thofe 

 of Stone, Marbkj Cole, Chalk, and the 

 like coorfer Matter : as alfo the Shells, 

 Teeths mod other parts of Animals and 

 Vegetables : were fuftained in the Wa- 



c£S ^^^^ '^^ ^^^^ Deluge f ; after (bme time^ 

 that the violeoce of the Hurry and 

 ComiiiGtioa was over, and the Water 

 come to a ftate ibmewhat more calm 

 and ledatCj loch of thofe Corpufcles, as 

 liappened to occurr or meet together, 

 ■ aUx'd £0 each other : and, many of 

 ihem cooycning^ uiiiting, and combi- 

 ning into one Mafs, formed the Me- 

 tallick and Mineral Balls or Nodules 

 " %¥hkh we now find. 



That 



