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Ecliptick, but inclined in like manner 

 as it is at prefent : and that there were 

 the fame Succeffions of Heat 2ind Coldj 

 Wet and Dry : the fame Viciflitudes of / 

 Seafo/js^ Spring, Summer, Autunin 3 

 and Winter, that now there is. 



It hath been already noted , that 

 thele Propofitions are founded on Ob- 

 lervations made upon the Animal and 

 Vegetable Remains of the Antediluvian 

 Earth. From thofe Remains we may 

 judge what fort of Earth that was : and 

 fee that it was not much different from 

 * conf, this we now inhabit Now though 

 '^fg- 84. 'tis not to be expected that I here for- 

 ^ ^^^^ mally lay down thofe Obfer vations, 

 that being not the Bufinefs of thii TroB^ 

 yet untill I have Opportunity both of 

 doing fb, and of fhewing in what 

 manner the foregoingPropofitions flow 

 from them, it may be very conveni- 

 ent that I give fome fliort Diredions 

 how the Reader, for his prefent Satis* 

 faftion, may, of himfelf, and without 

 my Affiftaoce, make out the principal 

 Articles of thefe Propofitions from the 

 Obfervations already delivered in the 

 ieveral Parts of this Difcourfe, and 

 from one or two more that I lliall add 

 upon this Occafion. And that he may 



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