Part Vt of the Earth. 255 



gument of a Sea, fb do the River-ones 

 of Rivers in the Antediluvian Earth. 

 And if there were Rivers, there muft 

 needs alfb have been Mountains ; for 

 they will not flow unlefs upon a De- 

 clivity, and their Sources be railed 

 above the Earth's ordinary Surface, fo 

 that they may run ^ 



T\ r 11 ^u. Part 7. Sefl. i. Pag. ic^. & 



uponaDefcentJijthe rlTheorift, 



Swiftnefs of their C^r- pofes both the jl^itedihvian and 

 rent, and the thefrcfentEarthtoheofanOval 

 r rrr i i P^g^^c, and protended towards 



ty or Water refunded the Poks^, as thinking that fuch 

 by them, being pro- ^ ^'^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ 



^ ' I II Pla?ie fo much inclined taroards 



portioned generally Actuator, that the Rivers 



to the height of their ^ight flow upon it though there. 



Ov.™^.,- ^^^'^ ^0 fountains. But "'tis'' 



Sources, and the Big- ^^^^ ^^^^^ 



mfs of the Mountains there any the Uaft Grounds to bc^ 

 out of which they l>e-ve th^t the M Earth was of 

 ^ , . that tigure. Ij he had had any 



arue. Mountains be- thing that had hoed uh a proof 

 ing proved, nothing 4 ^^^^ f ^^^'^^ 



1 ]i . 1 produced it. But ^tis manifeft 



neea oe laid concern- ^^^^^^ Earth 



ing Valleys ; they ne- formed that way he propofes, it 



ceffarily following ;r*"C'"l^ > S 



from that Proof, as fent Earth, 'tis of a Figure ae 



being nothing but the i^f'"'"' fi-^^ t'nat m he 4- 



•r 11 1 • I Jtzns as tt yvell could be I it being 



Intervalls betwixt the « Sphceroides Prolatas, as up- 

 Mountains. But Jet P^^*"^ fi'^'^ ^^^e Difcoveria 



US fee what Mofes """-'"^ 

 hath on this SubjeS *. And the Wa- * G^»_vn. 

 ters (he is treating of the Deluge)'^" 



pre- 



