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' The Author takes the fame method in the Second Difccurfe of the Gen if si 
Dtluge, bringing firft the Teflimonies of r lie ancient Heathen Writers concer- 
ning it, endeavouring to fhew, that by Deucalions they underftood Nnetb*s 
Flood, which they alfo make univerfal. though he owns there was in Thtflaly 
fl>ch a particular (flood as they call Deucalions, about 700 years after Noab\ 
and that ofOgyges h\ Attica, about 230 years before Dincaiions. Proccc^irg 
to treat of the Csufes of this general Flood, rej.ctirg that cf the Airs being 
turned into Water, aliedged by Kircher in Area AW, he pitches upon thofe 
two mentioned in Gtnefis, the breaking up the Fountains of the gregt^'eep, 
and opening tlx Windows of Heaven, by the fail of which he fuppofes a great 
quantity of Water may be afforded, taking the Waters above the Fitiidm nt 
to be Waters lodged above the infericur Regions of the Air. By tbeFouHtains 
- of the Deep, he underftands the fubrerranecus Waters. As to tjie Expecce 
of the Sea-water by Vapour,he concludes the Receipts of the Mediterranean to 
fall fhorr of its eKpence. He queflicns whether there be any under-Currenrs in 
th«5ea,and proceeding to his prefent Sub.jeft.of the breaking the Fouimiirr, 
he by the way diftents from Dr. Plot, in his Nat. Hift. of Staffordshire, T&tt 
the Valleys are as much below the Surface of the Sea as (he Mountains are above 
it, fince the Rivers run down from thofe Valleys into the Sea ; and fecms 
diffatisfied with the Opinion of an inferiour circulation of Water, as not fuffi- 
ciently demonftra-ed how it can be performed. Having obferved that the 
Hills and Dry Land is fo equally difperfed over the World, as to counterba- 
lance each other, fo that the Centers o; Motion, Gravity, and Magnitude con- 
cur in one, he difcourfes occafionally of the original of Springs, all which he 
holds to be partly from Vapors condenfed into Dews, and partly from Rjin 
and Snow ; giving his Thoughts upon Mr. Mitteys late Hypothefts ; coming at 
Iaft to what he thinks the moft probable Caufes of the Flood, 177. The Chan- 
ging the Center of the Earth at that time, and letting it nearer the middle of 
our Continent, whereupon the Atlantic^ and Pacific^ Oceans prefling upon 
the fubttnaneoiis Ahyfi, by that means forced the Water upwards and compci'd 
it to run out at the wide mouths made at the breaking up of the Fountains 
of the Deep. Thefe Waters thus poured out upon the Earth, the declivity 
being charged by the Removal of the Center, cculd not flow to the Sea again, 
but ftagnate upon the Earth ; and after the Earth returning to its old Centir, 
thefe Waters returned alfo to their former Receptacles. He adds another Hy- 
pothefts, That the Divine Power might at that time fo deprefs the Surface of 
\hz Ocean, as to force the Waters of the A'c)3 through the fore-mentioned 
Channels, &c. An Hypothefis like the former of thefe >ou wiil at the end of 
a Treatife, de Fetentia Kejtitutiva, or of Springs publifh'd by Dr. Hoo^e, 
> anno 1678. pag. $0. V/here, by the removal of the Center toward the Antipodes, 
he explains ibt appearance of fever al /fluids in our Seas, by the Recefi of the 
-Water-, nkich formerly were not objeTved,fkc. In the next place our Author 
fpeaking of the Vffecls of the Deluge, has a particular Chapter of formed 
Stones, Sea-fhells, and the like Bodies found at ciilances from the fhore, 
and brings the Arguments at large on both fides, for and againit the:; being 
originally Shells, Bones, &c. to which being long, we refer: In wkich he 
ownshimfelf not to be yet fatisfied on either fide : He adds the draughts ©f 
&me of the moft- different kinds of thefe -Eodies, end leaving the matter un- 
determiuU 
