2§6 The Natural Hiflory Part?L 



To deal freely, I am of opinion there's ^ 

 no part of the prefent Earth that does 

 come up fully to the Mofdck Defcri- 

 ption of Paradife. The Gountry abou|^| 

 Babylon^ or Bagdet^ bids faireft for it 4P 

 and I am perfuaded that it was there?* 

 abouts. Butiffb, whoever fhall com- 

 pare this Country, as now it ftands, 

 with that Defcription, will find that 

 it fuftained fome Alterations from the 

 Deluge, perhaps more than any Partis 

 of the Earth befides. And there's an 

 obvious Reafbn why it fhould- There 

 was a Paradife before, but was to bq 

 none after the Deluge. The Ca/e was 

 altered, and the Reafon of the thing 

 ceafed. So that that denoniinated 

 it Paradife, and that diftingoifli'd it 

 from the reft of the Globe, was lopM 

 off by the Deluge, and that only left 

 which it enjoyed in common with it% 

 neighbour Countries^ Upon the v/hole, 

 'tis, I think, apparent that what I 

 offer in this Difcourfe is fo far from 

 doing any Diskindnefi to the Caufe 

 thefe Gentlemen are, and have been 

 lb long, engaged in, that it does them 

 a real Service, and helps them out 

 with the main thing whereat they 



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