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dered more plain and even, and redu- 

 ced nearer to the ordinary Level of the 

 Earth; by which means they were 

 made habitable by fuch time as there 

 was occafion for them, fit for Tillage, 

 for the Produdion of Vegetables, of 

 Corn, and other Neceflaries, for the 

 uft of their Inhabitants. 



That although the primipd Intemon 

 in the Precipitation of the Vegetative 

 Terreftrial Matter at the Deluge, * P^rp 2, 

 and the burying it in the StratJ''^'^^'^^ 

 underneath amongft the Sand, and 

 other mineral Matter, was to re- 

 tfench and abridge the Luxury and 

 Superabundance of the ProduQions 

 of the Earth, w^hich had been fo 

 ingratefully and fcandaloufly abufed 

 by its former Inhabitants, and to caufe 

 it to deal them forth for the future 

 jnore frugally and fparingly ; yet there 

 iwas a ftill farther Defign in that Precis 

 pitation: and the Matter lb buried 

 was to be brought up upon the Stage 

 once more; being only refer ved in 

 ftore for the benefit of Pofterity, and 

 robe, by this Deterration, fetched out 

 to light again to fupply the Wants of 

 the latter Ages of the World. For had 

 ^hefe Smta of Stone, and other mi- 

 : neral 



