Fact V'* (f the Earth i^ ^/ 



there are not ; for the Alterations 

 ja^ich thej have fancied are fuch as 

 turn all the wrong way : fuch as are 

 without ufe, and have no end at all,^ 

 or, which is woi fe than none, a bad 

 one : and tend to the damage and dttri-^ 

 mmt of the Earth and its FroduBions. 

 . . Notwithftanding, feme Akerations 

 there are which it hath, and doth ftill 

 undergo. This is what we may pro- 

 nounce with Certainty : and there 

 want not Inftances enough fufBcientlv 

 to vouch and atteft it. But thefe Al- 

 terations are of a quite different Strain: 

 thefe are as amkabk and btnifcent to 

 the Earth and Terreflrial Bodies^ as the 

 other, were there really any fuch, 

 would be pernicious and deftruQive 

 to both. I have already given fbme " ^^rt 4. 

 Intimations of the Changes which hap- ^^"-^ 

 pen in the interioar parts of the Earth, 

 I mean the Tranfitions and Removes 

 of Metalls and Minerals there : and 

 fhewn of what ufe and adva?itage thofe 

 Changes are to the H^orld f . So that 

 I may now pafs freely on to confider ^^^/-s?- 

 thofe which befall the exterkur^ or Sur- 

 face of it. And thefe are brought about 

 filently and infenfibly 3 and, which is 

 the conft ant 'Method of Nature^ with 



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