part VI. of the Earth. 251 

 Parts of the adjacent Seas f , but never t conf. 

 any that are peculiar to remoter Seas^'^;^^^^' 

 or to the Shores of diftant Countries, 

 we may reafonably conclude, not only 

 that the Sea was of the fame bignefs ;^ 

 and capacity before the Deluge, but that 

 it was of much the ikm^form alfb, and 

 interwoven with the Earth in like 

 manner as at this time : that there was 

 Sea in or near the very fame places or 

 Parts of the Globe: that each Sea had 

 its peculiar Shells^ and thofe of the fame 

 Kjnds that now it hath: that there was 

 the fame diver fity of Climates^ here 

 warmer and more agreeable to the 

 Southern Shells, there colder and bet- 

 ter fuited to the Northern ones : the 

 fame variation of Soils ^ this Traft af* 

 fording fuch a Terreftrial Matter as is 

 proper for the Formation and Nourifh- 

 ment of one fort of Shell-fifh, that of 

 another : in few words, much the fame 

 Appearance of Nature, and Face of 

 Things that we behold in the prefent 

 Earth. But of this more by and by. 



That the Water of the Sea was falt^ 

 as now it is, may be made out like- 

 wife from thole Shells and other the 

 Productions of it ; they being of the 

 fame Conftitution, and confifting of 



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