250 The Natural Hiflory PartVIi 

 mon and known to (igmfie the Sea. Accor| 

 ding to /^/i^ therefore, we fee the Sea 

 was formed at the beginning of the 

 World, and after its Formation appro^ 

 ved of Osgood: that is, veryneceflary 

 and ferviceable to the Ends of Provi* 

 dence in the Kingdom of Nature ; and 

 this indeed it is lb many ways, that it 

 muft needs be granted that that would 

 have been a very wild World had it 

 been without any Sea. The ftpara^ 

 ting of the Sea and Land, and deter- 

 mining the fet Bounds of each, is here 



fVerf. reckoned part of the Work of the 

 third Day : as the flocking of the Sea 



lFerf.21, with Whales and other Filhes, is(|of 

 the fifth. Jnd God created great Whale Sy 

 S^a and bleffed them^ f^y^^g^ fruitful 

 and multiply y and fill the Waters in the 

 SEAS. And when on the fixth Day 

 the finiChing Hand was fet to the Work, 

 and Man created, God gives hini Do- 



* Ferf. 28. minion over the Ftfh of the SEA 



'Twould have been but a (canty and 

 narrow Dominion, and Adam a very 

 mean Prince, had there then been nei- 

 ther any Fifli exiftent nor Sea to con- 

 tain them. Nay, this had been little 

 better than a downright lUufion and 

 abufing of him : and what is more , 



that 



