t p6 The Natural tiiprj Part IV. 



ready fb filled, that they cannot receive 

 any more 5 or where the Stock of ffle-* 

 tallick and mineral Corpufcles, origi- 

 nally lodged in the Strata, is not quite 

 exhaufted, and all borne thither alrea* 

 dy. That yet this Encreafe is not now 

 any where very great , iheCorpufcles, 

 which were capable of being ftirred 

 and removed, being, by the continual 

 Paflage of the Water for Co rfiany Ages, 

 in moft places exhaufted, educed forth 

 of the Strata, and tranfmitfed into 

 thefe their Fiffiires. 

 II. That the metallick and mineral 

 Matter which lyes in the Bodies of the 

 Strata does Kot now grow : nor hath it 

 ever received any Addition fmct *twas 

 firft repofed in thofe Strata at the time 

 of the Univerfal Deluge : but, on the 

 contrary, hath been diminirfied and 

 leflened by {6 much as hath been con- 

 veyed into their perpendicular Inter- 

 valls, and as hath been brought forth 

 ^ .upon the SurEce of the fiarth by 

 1^01: Springs, Rivers *, and Exhalations f 

 i^'d. from the Abyfs, ever fince that time. 

 Gonf. 14. rj.^^^ notwithftanding there have, and 

 do ftillj happen, Tranfitions add Re- 

 moves of it, in the fo/id Strata^ from 

 one part" of the fame Stratnm to ano« 



ther 



