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dear from what hath been delivered 

 in the Fourth Part of this Eflay, which 

 need not be repeated here. Nor is 

 Mofes defective in this Point f. Jnd\Ge?i/ir, 

 ZJ/^ah, /be alfo bare TuhaLCdn^ an In-^^ 

 JlruSier of every Artificer in Brafs and 

 Iron. The Theorifl , quite contrary ^ 

 fays, As for Subterraneom Things^ Me- 

 tails and Minerals^ I believe they had none 

 in the firjl Earth ; and the happier they ; 

 no Goldy nor Silver^ nor coarftr Met alls. 

 Atnongft thefe coarier Metalls are 

 Copper, or Brafs, and Iron. Now if 

 there were none of thefe, 'tis a great 

 Myftery to me, I confefs, how Tubal- 

 Cainj who certainly died either before 

 or at the Deluge ||, could ever have II <^^«y^^» 

 taught the WorkmanOiip and Ufe o^^;^' 

 them. And yet if this Theory be true, i pa, iil 

 there neither was nor could be any 

 within their reach, or that they could 

 ever poffibly cortie at. For the truth 

 of the Theory I am in no wife con- 

 cerned : the Compofer of it mull look 

 to that ; but that there v/ere really 

 both Metalls and Minerals before the 

 Deluge, is moft certain* For befides 

 the Teftimony that we have of the 

 Thing from Nature, and the PaiTage 

 already alledged out of Mofes^ there is 



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