244 Natural Uifiory Part VL 



it could not well have been brought 

 in before. ^ 

 Had there not been ftill remaining 

 a great many Animal and Vegetable 

 Bodies that were the legitimate OfF- 

 fprings of that Earth, 'twould have 

 been an extravagant and impraclieable 

 Undertaking to have gone about to 

 have determined any thing concerning 

 it ; and the more fb becaufe the Earth 

 ^ Tart 2. it j[elf was diflblved and deftroyed 

 conf. 1. gyj. J pj.Qye tiiat thej^e are fuch Re- 

 mains of it, enclofed in great plenty 

 in the Marble, Stone, and the other 

 comparer Strata of the preftnt Earth| 

 whereby they have been preferved^ 

 through fo many Ages, quite dowri 

 to our Times : and are like to endure, 

 many of them, much longer; even ai 

 long as the Strata themfelves continue 

 in the Condition they now are ; and^ 

 fb will be a fijre and lafting Monu- 

 ment and Witnefs of the Truth of 

 that extraordinary Accident ( the De-^ 

 ftrudion of the Earth and of Mankind 

 by the Deluge) to Pofterity, quite 

 down to the End of the World . 



Now becaufe the Obfervations 

 which I make ufe of in the former 

 Piarts of this Work give an Account of 



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