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the faid Produdions thus prefcrved, I 

 proceed upon thofe Obfervations, as ^ 

 hitherto, and, by Inferences which ea- 

 fily, clearly, and naturally flow from 

 them, fliew what was the Condition 

 and State of that Earth, and wherein 

 it differ d from this we now inhabit. 



And in regard that, from a Theory 

 which, how much fbever it may relifh 

 of Wit and Invention, hath no real 

 Foundation either in Nature or Hifto- 

 ry, the Author fb often mentioned al- 

 ready hath fet forth an imaginary and 

 fidlitious Earth: whole Pofl:ure to the 

 Sun he fuppofes to have been much 

 different from that which the Earth at 

 prefent obtains, and fuch that there 

 could be no Alteration of Heat and 

 Cold, Summer and Winter, as now 

 there is, but a conftant Uniformity of 

 Weather and Equality of Seaibns f : j. xheory of 

 An Earth without any Sea: without Earth, 

 Mountains, or other Inequalities il:^;^^ ^'^ 

 and^ithout either Metalls or Mine- 1| z.. i. 5-. 

 rals^: in few words, one perfectly un-^ ihid. 

 like what the Antediluvian Earth was^-^*^-^- 

 in truth and reality : and perfectly 

 unlike that which Mo(es hath repre- 

 lented ; I fhail therefore interpofe 

 fome Confedaries which would have 



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