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he wxott this. Nor is it any Paradox, 

 notwithftanding that Diffoltition of the 

 Earth which happened at the Deluge % " Pm 2, 

 to fuppofe there was this or that Me- 

 tall or Mineral in the fame Part of the ' " " 

 Globe afterwards where it was before 

 that happened. .The Water of the 

 Abyfs indeed changed its Place, du- 

 ring the tim^: So did the Sea, and 

 bore the Bodies it contained, many of 

 them, out along with it. But for the 

 Terreftrial Parts of the Globe, Metalls, 

 Minerals, Marble, Stone, and the reft, 

 they, though diffolved , and affumed 

 up into the Water, did not flitt or 

 move far, but, at the general Subfi- 

 dence, fettled down again in or near 

 the fame Place from which they were 

 before taken up. For the Water was 

 all out upon the Face of the Earth be- 

 fore ever thefe ftirr'd^ or were fetched 

 up out of their native Beds : and they 

 were all funk down into the fame 

 Beds again, before the Water began . 

 to fhift away back to its old Quarters ; 

 fb that it could not contribute any 

 thing to the Removal of them. Even 

 the very Vegetables, and their Seeds, 

 which were many of them naturally 

 lighter than the Water, aiQfled by the 



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