Part I¥. of the Earth i % 5 



concreted into Nodules, fubftded down 

 to the bottom : at the fame time that 

 did the Shells, Teeth, and other like 

 Bodies, as alfo the Sand, Cole, Marie, 

 and other Matter whereof the Strata. 

 of Sand-ftone, Cole, Marie, and the 

 reft are for the moft part compofed f , t conf, 

 and fo were included iq, and lodged ^5 3] 

 amongft, that matter. 



That in regard that both the ordi- 

 nary Terreftrial Matter, and the Mi- 

 neral and Metallick Matter which was 

 affumed up into the Fluid was different 

 in different parts of it, being in fbme 

 places all chiefly of one kind, fuppofe 

 Sand: in others of a different kind, 

 e.g. Chalk : and in others of feveral 

 icinds together, as Sand, Chalk, and 

 many more : and there being no other 

 Place or Apartment in the Globe aflign- 

 ed to any of this Matter than that ^ 

 whereinto its own natural Gravity 

 bore it, which was only direftly down- 

 wards, whereby it obtained that place 

 in the Globe which was juft under- 

 neath that part of the Fluid where ic 

 was fiiftained when the Subfidence be- 

 gan ; it thence happened that thq 

 Strata^ which were afterwards confti- 

 tuted by this Matter thus fubfiding. 



