a74 Natural Hiflory Pare VI 



would have been all the Diverfity, 

 Uncertainty , and Diforder, in the 

 Vegetable Kingdom that can well be 

 conceived* Which indeed is no more 

 than what he freely owns : telling us 

 that then Every Seafon was a Seed- 1 me 

 to Nature-^ and every Seafon an Harvejl. 

 This is what he does, and muft grant; 

 _ and this is as mnch as is needful for 

 the overturning his Hypothefis. For 

 the Vegetable Remains of that Earth 

 fay no fuch thing : they give not any 

 the leaft Countenance to thefe Conje-» 

 £l:ure^, but the quite contrary : and 

 thefe^ being many of them enclofed in 

 Very fine and clofe Stone, are prefer- 

 red to this day very curioufly and en- 

 tire to Admiration. By r^^e^ we may 

 eafily judge how Things then ftood. 

 And there is fo great an Uniformity, 

 and general Confent amongft them, 

 that fi'om it I was enabled to difcover 

 , ^ , what time of the year 



Monrh, the ftvente.nth Jay of Was that the De^ 



the Month, -w^ere all the Foan- luge began 'f ; the 



tains of the great Dfeep bm^^^ j | TctlOUr of 



up, and tne wmdows of Heaven t ^ t> i- i 



Were opened. Mofes -a'rltivg tut le iiodies thus pre- 



to the Jews hif Cmntrj^men , £^rved ckarlv point- 



7n^kes ufe of the Form of the Tear . , i mVr i 



received an-.ovgji than , mg forth ttlt Month 



which pf 



