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folemn and Extraordinary manner. 

 Exod. 20. II. In fix days the Lord made 

 Heaven and Earthy the SEJy and sill 

 that in them is. 'Tis very hard to 

 think the Theorift fhould not know 

 this : and as hard that, knowing it, he 

 fhould fo openly -diffent from it. 



Then for the Dimeafions of the Sea 5 

 that it was as large^ and of as great ex- 

 tent as now it is, may be infcrrM froqi 

 the vaft Multitudes of thofe Marine 

 Bodies which are ftill found in all Parts 

 \Qmf. of the known World f. Had thefe 

 ^^g' been found in only one or two places : 

 & Part 2. J mttt with but fbme few 

 Species of them, and fuch as are the 

 ProduGs of one Climate or Country, 

 it might have been fufpeded that the 

 Sea was then, what the Cafpim is, on- 

 ly a great Pond or Lake, and confined 

 to one part of the Globe. But feeing 

 they are dug up at Land almoft every 

 where, and in at leaft as great variety 

 and plenty as they are obferved at Sea : 

 fince likewile the foffil Shells are many 

 of them of the fame kinds with thofe 

 that now appear upon the neighbour- 

 ing Shores, and the refi fuch as may 

 well be prefumed to be living at the 

 bottom, or in the interiour and deeper 



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