(2190) 
which done 3 he labours to evince by a notable Inftance, 
that the produdion of many Shels found in thefe times is to 
be reterr'd to the times coincident with the General De- 
luge. And what he hath prov'd of Animals and their parts, 
he expends to Vegetables found under ground 5 (hewing 
withal 5 what may be conceived ot the Figures of Plants 
appearing on Scones. 
He concludeth this Prodromus with a remarkable Infer- 
-mation, fliewing. How we may from theprefenc Face of 
the Earth, by an attentive view, difcover the former ftate 
of it. Which he endeavours to make out by an Example 
taken i^omTo[ca7iy ^ in the pre(ent Face of which he con- 
-ceiveth, that the obvious IncquaHcies praclaimco an heed- 
fnl Obfervermanifeft arguments and figns of Six different 
Changes happened therein ; the face of it having beenj by 
his Obfervationsjtwice fluidj twice plane and dryland twice 
un^even; which as he attempts to demonftratc by an In^ 
du^tion of many places in Tofcany view'd by himfcif, fo he 
confirms it of the Whole Earth by the Defcriptions of va^ 
^rions parts of the World made by feveral Auihors ; obvi* 
atingthe chief difSculties, that may occur about each Face 
and particular Conftitution of the Earth, 
yfii fiver ti(ernent. 
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