2|#' The Natural Bipry Part P. 



Nutriment and Formation of the Plants 

 which grow thereon : and the reB of 

 it, being more crafs and ponderous, 

 does not move far, but lodges in the 

 Clefts, Craggs, and fides of the Rocks 

 or Mountains, and at or near the Roots 

 Qt Bottoms of them. 

 - 4, ' That the Stone of Rocks and Moun- 

 tains being by degrees in this manner 

 diflblved, and the Sand born off, the 

 Shells J and other Marine Bodies which 

 ^ Part 1. were originally included therein % are 

 €mf.^. by that means let loole, turned out, 

 and expofed upon the Surface of the 

 Earth. That 'tis for this reafbn that 

 thele Marine Bodies are now moft 

 commonly found upon Hills, and the 

 higher Grounds ; thofe few which are 

 found below and at the bottoms of 

 them, being for the moft part only fuch 

 as have fallen down from above, ancfi 

 from the tops of them ; thofe which 

 were, at the time of the Deluge, re-^ 

 pofed upon the Surface of the Earth, 

 IViiv.'ig. being moft of them perifhM and gone|[: 

 ^I'r^ and indeed thefe, which are yet exi- 

 ftent, only accidentally preferved by 

 their being at firft enclofed in the 

 Strata of Stone, and fo fccured by it as 

 long as it was it felf fecure, I mean/ 

 • ' until! 



