WtMi of the Earth. 2 3 5 



untill it was thus diflblved, and (b 

 could not any longer contribute any 

 thing to their Prefervation. 



That thefe Shells and other Bodies, 5, 

 being thus turned out of the Stone, 

 and expofed loofe upon the Surface of 

 the Earth, to the Injuries of Weather, 

 and of the Plough, to be trod upon by 

 Horfes and other Cattel, and to many 

 other external Accidents, are, in tra8: 

 of time, womy fretted, and Ifroke;^ to 

 pieces. 



That the Shells being fb broken, 

 ftruck off, and gone, the Sto^e included 

 in them is thereby difclofed and fet at 

 liberty ; which Stone confifts of the 

 Sand wherewith the Cavities of thole 

 Shells were filled when they were (u- 

 ftained together with it in the Water 

 at the Deluged, and which at length |j p^^^ 2. 

 fubfided in them, and was lodged with ^H^'^'&h 

 them in the Strata of Sand-ftone 5 the 

 Sand contained within the Shell beco- 

 ming folid and confiftent at the fame 

 time that the ambient, or that of the 

 Stratum without it, did f . t p^^'^ ^« 



That therefore the Shells ferved as^'""-^"^' 

 Flafms or Moulds to this Sand 5 which, 

 when confblidated, and afterwards in 

 Strad of time by this means freed from 



r its 



